Love at first sight is more common than you think. The moment you fall in love is not the same as the moment you realize you are in love.
Why? Because falling in love is not as dramatic as they show in the movies. It might start with a gaze. Maybe talking just comes easier than usual. She seems so beautiful, and maybe all the other people in the room become shadows. You don’t realize what is happening, because to realize it would be to step out of it. But her heart has captured you in its warm gravity, and you can’t escape it.
Its only days later, when she is gone that, it hits you. You want to see her again as soon as possible. Your first date was perfect… effortless. But!
You still don’t know you’re in love.
You realize you’re in love when you can’t escape it. You’ve spent months… sometimes years rationalizing how it might not work. How you’re not ready. How maybe the right one is still out there…
But there is no right one… because the right one is right in front of you. She’s always been there.
And you have been in love from the moment you saw each other.