The Million Dollar Question

Every day, people fall in love, stay in love and others unluckily fall out of love. And if by chance, you happened to be one of them, then, there was a time you were once asked by your special someone a question that leaves you a minute or two before you could think of the right answer. You get tongue-tied or you were speechless for a while because you were trying to get the most romantic line you could ever think of. Perhaps, your answer can be a lyric from a song, a short quote from a book, a famous dialogue from a movie or just a simple spur of the moment safest response you can utter.

"Why do you love me?"

We begin to list down all the reasons why you love that person you care about and those things that makes you want to love them more? And out of those times, the reasons are somewhat common and superficial. But did you ever wonder that sometimes you never gave the real answer to that question. Your mind became busy recalling with what you love about that person and not why you really love him. You tend to panic about how you will summarize all those thousand reasons floating in your head and how do you tell that person what it feels like to be falling in love, right into his arms, right into his life.

"Why do you love me?", she heard him whisper in her ears. I love you because the world showed me the way to you. I love you because my heart beats your name. I love you because we are perfect for each other. I love you for you keeping me safe in your arms, for making my heart leap, for the hundred times you and I can talk about anything. I loved you for making me whole and standing by my side and for making me feel everything when I think I am nothing.

More often that not, the hardest part of answering this question lies on how will you convince that person you love with the reasons you gave. How will the reasons will not sound too corny, not too good to be true or not too cliché that it can become an ordinary cheesy everyday pick up line.

It's too hard. It's too complicated to get the best answer. But try first to just love that person because that person showed you something that you could never see beyond words and feelings. Love that person because that person taught you lessons that you could never learn anywhere else in the world. Love because that person made the right choice in loving you no matter what reasons you have in loving him/her back. Love that person because both of you think you deserve each other and one thing for sure, I promise, you will never ever have a hard time answering this one heck of a question.

And when that one day comes, when that inevitable question pops out, just hold his face in your hands, look him in the eyes with your utmost sincerity and honesty, make him understand that you truly love him and it doesn't matter why. You love him not because of a reason, not because of a purpose. You just love him because you simply do, you really do.