This Is How Every Woman Should Fall In Love

I want to fall head over heels this year. By the very end of 2016, I want to be bursting at the seams of all my scars with a love burning happily in my heart. I want to be drunk on romance and swimming in the clouds alongside my dreams.

I want to do this solely on my own, so I may get acquainted with love in this peculiar way. I'd like to fall in love singularly, yet with so many, many different things. I want to push past lust and flout infatuation. I don't want to settle for mediocre or an imitation.

I want the authentic feeling that surpasses dreaming — a love that's true and never fleeting. I want this for myself as well as for you. I'd like it for the world, if possible. 

I want every fear I've ever held in the darkest parts of my heart transformed into the purest desire for truth. I want to feel the magic of love singing my soul to sleep.

This is how I want to fall in love in 2016.

I want to fall in love with the way the sun rises, teeming with hope.

I want to fall in love with the way the horizon takes the day and leaves the stars.

I want to fall in love with the warm scent of coffee in a new, quiet morning.

I want to fall in love with the way my sheets feel like home after the longest day.

I want to fall in love with all of my fateful regrets that guided me to this place.

I want to fall in love with the sky no matter what moods it's in.

I want to fall in love with the moon while it lulls us to our dreams.

I want to fall in love dancing on pavements and cobblestones around the world.

I want to fall in love with the precious cities I have yet to introduce myself to.

I want to fall in love between each second of the clock's precious time.

I want to fall in love with my past so I can better understand my future.

I want to fall in love with what's behind my eyes, no matter how untamed it is.

I want to fall in love swiftly, quickly and abruptly, yet slowly and softly all at once.

I want to fall in love with the people in my life I forget to say "I love you" to.

I want to fall in love with every unexpected surprise that unfolds with the year.

I want to fall in love when I trip and fall and get to see a new firsthand view.

I want to fall in love with the light as much as I appeal to the dark.

I want to fall in love with imperfection and what glitters in between its breaks.

I want to fall in love with every rainy afternoon and every blooming dawn.

I want to fall in love with unfamiliar lost courses on dirt-paved roads.

I want to fall in love in lackluster places because they still shine on their own.

I want to fall in love with the songs in people's voices we tend to miss.

I want to fall in love with the stories that make up the lines on my palms.

I want to fall in love with cultures unknown and histories still untold.

I want to fall in love with flavors unexpected and remembered on my tongue.

I want to fall in love in between sentences and through tendrils of words.

I want to fall in love with the way I've learned to survive this life.

I want to fall in love with places and people and scenes and everything.

I want to fall in love before I fall for you.

Falling for you will be like the sun, the world, the views, the fears, the dreams, the stories, the shore, the scenes, and every sweet noise trundled into one gallant blow to the heart. You, you're going to hit me hard.  

So I would like to fall in love many times this year, so that I may know how extraordinary you are when you appear, because you will be beyond every single thing. You will be everything I've ever loved in a single touch and a single glance.

I must fall in love this year so I can understand the magnitude of what you will be — of what you will mean to me, and I to you. I want to be ready for the cataclysmic revolution that you will cause in my heart, because you will destroy me in every best way.

That's how I want to fall in love in 2016. I want to know love before I know you. I want to feel its essence and understand its woes. I want to fall in love this way so that I'm full of so much love to hand to you, and I'm waiting patiently for the day when I can give it all to you.

This is how I want to fall in love this year, because I know love will never be enough once you're here.

Originally published on The Huffington Post.

This article was originally published at singlestrides.com. Reprinted with permission from the author.