"the course of true love never did run smooth"

Thanks be to God Love Actually for informing the world that love, actually, is all around us. Love can also be lost if we do not handle it correctly; it can dissapear in a matter of moments and along with it, goes it's memory and it's comforting, and highly winter-warming aura. But love can actually be at its most powerful when it has been lost and then rediscovered. And this is what gives us, as a race, hope and the strength to love again, in that we will remember what is always, always going to keep our world moving.

Love can be seen in so many wonderful and heartbreaking shapes and forms, it is difficult to know which love we are treasuring and which love we are craving. There is the love of a sibling - be it a brother or a sister - both types of love are proufoundly seperate. There is the love of a parents, and likewise, be it a mother or a father, we will naturally behave and respond to the love we feel for them in different ways because they are both entirely different types of love. There is the love we feel for an animal whether it is a loving pet, or an unfortunate 'stumble-accross' whilst out walking in the gentle summer breeze. Another love is the type we feel for each other - our friends. Even if we do not know someone, if put in a life or death situation, ultimately we would experience the natural instinct to help - to help others. We are told this every day and no matter how selfish people presume or imagine themselves to be, that can all change in an instance for that is the power of love. It is not the feeling we get when we think about the word 'love' but it is the sense that with anything, we want to help them. We are driven through fear and therefore we are heavily dependable on love. Because love is what keeps us going.

Love can be expressed in any form; there is absolutely no way that love cannot be portrayed. Scriptwriters and songwriters, novelists and poets, painters and chefs, actors and carpenters - everyone - has been inspired and influenced by the feeling and the general experience of love itself. Think of all the beautiful films in which love has been depectied and in all the many, many different ways:

Disney's Pocahontas: "I'd rather die tomorrow, than live a hundred years without knowing you."
Peter Pan: "You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you, Peter Pan. That's where I'll be waiting."
The Wizard of Oz: "Hearts will never be practical, until they are made unbreakable."
Titanic: "A woman's heart is an ocean of secrets."
Glee: "I love you. I don't wanna be with Sam, or Finn, or any of those other guys. I just want you."
The Notebook: "It wasn't over for me. It still isn't over."
Dirty Dancing: "Most of all, I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life, the way I feel when I'm with you."
Taylor Swift 'Crazier': "I was trying to fly but I couldn't find wings, then you came along and you changed everything."
Shakespeare: "Shall I compare thee to a summers day?"

Love is everywhere. I know this was obvious before but without sounding too naive, it comforts me. Love is a massive word and is something that cannot be defined in several seconds. It takes time, just as it takes to grown and develop. Because that's when it is special.

I want to fall in love. I understand that 'I want' doesn't always 'get', but I do. I want to know what it feels like to be absolutely head over heels, besotted and irrevocably soul-intertwined with someone else who completely understands you and etternally accepts you for exactly who you are and what you stand for. Maybe I should blame my childhood interests and obbsessions (Disney) for my dreams and hopes about love but if my mother is anything to go by, I know that love can arise more than once and just as incredibly overpowering and passionately as the first time. I read all these delicious stories and poems about women who feel "inextricably attatched" and "overwhelmingly relieved" when they discover love. I hope that there is someone in this big and crazy world who will take me for who I am and look past the tatooed mistakes and solely see someone who wants to be held without asking why. And I wish that for everyone, because everyone deserves to experience love. It shouldn't be bruised and it shouldn't be mistreated, but it is, and it cannot be helped. I love that there is over 6 billion people out there in the world who could be your soulmate. And I love that they could be anyone. Absolutely anyone. And everyone (yes, everyone David Cameron), should have the freedom to express their love for whoever that is in their own, personal way. Love is something which shouldn't be restricted and held back because when it is, no wonder we are left with conflict.

Love is a treasure which cannot be buried.