how does it make you feel?

a friend asked me a while ago how love makes me feel? this was during the warm up gig before the klaxons at the brixton academy, two 20 something girls amongst a bunch of 15 year olds feeling rather old with our pint of stella. not a topic of conversation best held in this current circumstance, yet we feel it's the most appropriate. if pretending to be as young as 15 and listening to obnoxiously loud music is a sign of growing old, talk of love was definitely a sign of growing up.

and i told her exactly what i thought, and more importantly, felt. i said that no matter how sad, difficult, impossible and sombre things may seem, love makes you feel that everything will be just okay, and even better. there are some emotions that you feel which immediately has consequences: jealousy, anger, excitement, bravery, passion. whatever you end up doing because of feeling these emotions you feel guilty about it or it hits you in places like the purse or the heartstring. but love, whatever you may have had to go through in order to get there (and that's including all of the above mentioned) once you get there, love makes you feel that sense of calmness and stillness and complete ownership of your feelings of contentment and happiness without feeling guilty about it or trying to hide it. it doesn't shake your world upside down to a point where you don't know what happened because it always keeps you balanced, it makes you a better, a whole person and that makes me want to be the best of myself without other distractions of emotions and details.

so there you go, my honest opinion to my friend and myself. for those who needs to feel a rush of tingling excitement at their knees everytime, i'll say give it some time and soon it'll settle down you you'll most probably start to recognise the feeling of love, however it may materialise within you.