The Fear You Won't Fall

"Everybody misses falling in love". A friend told me that this evening and I can't really get it out of my head. Sure, the way you feel when you're falling in love with someone is indescribable. It's like a daze, like the world is your oyster. But is it really that simple?

You meet someone, you start talking, go out for drinks, maybe see a film. And you start fancying that someone. And then it gets complicated. Why? I don't know and I've been asking myself for years. In a world where romance has pretty much disappeared, do we have time for all this? Do we have time to play the game of flirting? Life goes by whether we want to or not and it's not gonna stop just because we want it to. We spend our days running from place to place, with barely anytime for ourselves. Thus, we're inclined to skip that whole phase and replace it with a straight answer: Yes or No? We eliminate the risk of getting hurt because we never had the time to start caring for someone. And that I believe, is one of the saddest things in the world.

There's nothing like falling in love. No other thing can replace that feeling. So maybe, just maybe, we can risk falling in love. And maybe that someone will fall in love too...


The song that got me to thinking is "The Fear You Won't Fall" by Joshua Radin.