How is it that two people fall in love? What is it that make the stranger across the crowded room set a person's heart aflutter? What happens to move two people, who have been in the ring's opposite corners, suddenly to embrace rather that begins the fight? How do two young people remain staunch in their commitment despite strong familial and societal oppositions? What happens to make the carefree "I want no commitments" person start thinking about being true to a love?
Most people love is not a priority, though it may be hoped that it will develop between the partners. Falling in love, at whatever age and no matter how many times, is a powerful example of how love moves us out of ourselves into a hoped-for union with another. Despite all the obstacles, falling in love in wonderful. It's also a roller-coaster ride of ups and downs, moments of certainty assailed by periodic concerns, putting yourself on the line with the hopes, oftens with little evidence, that the other feels the same about you.
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