modern day love

prologue

What is love? Is it defined by the actions we have done? Is love determined by the labels we put on ourselves? Or is it just a pure feeling we get? What exactly is it?

I never really got the momentum to stay put with someone for a long time. I don't know why I keep jumping from one person to another and another and another. The countless times my friends would ask me, "do you love him?" and I would always answer the same... "I don't know".

It's not like I haven't been "taught" what love is. Stories, movies, songs or simply just seeing and experiencing what it is like isn't connecting the dots for me. I've always thought I would grasp the concept of love if I met the "right one" though, I keep feeling the emptiness and hollowness as if I'm always missing something. Am I supposed to feel like fireworks are exploding every minute inside of me?

It isn't until I met him. An unplanned but weirdest timing occurrence. I never thought that one day my answer would change when my friend asked me "why him?" and I would answer confidently "I'm sure". How is he so different from everyone else? I just don't get it...