Falling Head Over Heels...

[Paalikles]

I might just go for no 2 and 3 on this list.
I used to be less picky when I was younger - though I reckon that was something different from this word "love"

Though I am not that much older - as one may see from my profile, I guess I might fall into those categories.

Also - I fit into the first one - tis all that irrational stuff. As a future economist - I tend to rely on the assumtion that all are more or less rational though, so that is a difficult topic...

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Never.


I've made people fall head over heels.



By ramming them with my car.

 

[The Yankee]

I don't know. I kind of shut down emotions for a while when things got tough with a lot of fighting and a war with my high school and the district.

But, I think I really like this one person....she's been different than I'm used to seeing, which was never good, which was...fighting.

 

[Goonie]

Originally posted by The Yankee
I don't know. I kind of shut down emotions for a while when things got tough with a lot of fighting and a war with my high school and the district.

I have heard reference to this many times. Care to explain.

 

[The Yankee]

Fighting the schools led to a lot of cracking down on me. Basically, there were times when gross negligence threatened me from advancing in the school.......structure, if you will, going on to higher levels. Whenever I pointed it out and tried to fix it, I was punished. So, I fought back. That lasted a long, long time.


In my younger years, I was also involved in a lot of physical fighting when I would be attacked because I was different than the other people in my earlier schools. I did not have their wealth, didn't wear their clothes, wasn't Italian, my father stayed at home instead of the mother.....so on.

So, I never had much an opportunity to make friends, not that I would have care for that type anyway, and thus, never before had the chance to be "Head Over Heels" to quote the thread title. There ya go.


Perhaps if I ever enter government service, I'll try my hand at reforming schools.....but if they continue like they are now in New York, it's almost a lost cause.

 

[Goonie]

Why were you fighting the schools?

 

[The Yankee]

Thought I put it in there.....because the punishments were wrong, unfair, and I still needed to clear the hurdles laid before me by a careless administrative structure. I don't let those things just hang there to bite me later.

It ended up in a fight against the district after I tried to get them to intervene. The school still has a good reputation, and they've tried painstakingly hard to make sure there aren't any blemishes.

 

[Norlamand]

Never. It tends to piss my wife off.

 

[bobgote]

Originally posted by Simon Darkshade
Never.


I've made people fall head over heels.



By ramming them with my car.

but were they in love with you in that brief second before they departed this world?

 

[Loaf Warden]

It is my opinion that the word 'love' is being thrown around far too lightly here. I don't believe that "falling head over heels" in love is possible, and I absolutely do not believe in "love at first sight".

Why? Because to me, the word 'love' describes a state of mutual trust, admiration, respect, and consideration. It is something you grow into after knowing someone--and getting to know them!--over a period of time.

What I fall into far too easily is infatuation. Desire, lust, twitterpation, whatever you want to call it. A strong want to be with a person and near a person and whatever else. This is not the same thing as love.

For example, there is an adorable young lady at my office with whom I am quite infatuated. She is married, so I shall keep my infatuation entirely to myself, but even if she were single and looking, my feelings for her could still not be considered 'love'. I don't really know her. I know her only through interactions at the office, most of which are job-related, and by a few random things she's told me about herself. I know nothing about who she is on her own time. I have no idea if she holds to any kind of ideals of loyalty or trustworthiness. In other words, I would not trust her with important things simply because I don't know her well enough to know if she can be trusted. And the more she tells me about herself, the more I am convinced that she would be a poor match for me. I am more and more certain we would be incompatible even if she were single and we tried dating. I honestly don't think there is anything there which could, even if it were not forbidden by her marital status, serve as a sturdy foundation for any kind of actual love.

All of which does not reduce my infatuation with her one whit. I still feel nervous when she's nearby. I still look over at her more often than I should when she's just sitting there doing her job, simply because I enjoy the sight of her. I still rejoice inwardly when she speaks to me, and bleed inwardly whenever she is unresponsive. I still find myself wishing that she were single so we could have some time together.

What I have is not unrequited love, but rather unrequited desire. I have not "fallen in love" with this young lady. I simply have a crush on her.

I find myself in such situations all too frequently. I've had more crushes than I'd care to count, but I have not, as yet, experienced actual love. I hope that I do someday, and that I'll know it when I see it. But experience and Reason have taught me that what I have now, isn't it.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

If your heels are by your head, chances are youre experiencing some sort of naughty love

 

[Riesstiu IV]

Originally posted by Simon Darkshade
Never.


I've made people fall head over heels.



By ramming them with my car.

Looks like someone needs some love and care in this thread.

 

[Turner]

There I was, sitting by the sandwich station, and in walks the new manager. I was instantly attracted to her, and was going to contemplate how to ask her out. Then I found out her name was Lori, and that was it. No chance. She'd be the third or fourth, depending on how you count it, and I was throught with that name.

Or so I thought.

We've been married for 9 years now. Four kids later. . .

It always hasn't been an easy ride, and a lot of times it's been tough. We've been through a lot together. Funny, after I got over her name, and we actually went out, I knew that night I would marry her. Oh, I'd loved other girls before, and we had talked about marriage and what not, but with her I just knew it was going to happen.

I picked "Pretty easily, but the person has to be something special" because I do tend to fall for girls pretty easy. But it has to be a certain type of girl.

 

[Wyrmshadow]

Well it depends on what your definition of "love" is? Is it a crush, physical attraction? Or is it that horrible hormonal imbalance that feels like a drug trip, makes poeple do stupid things, become Rennasaince poets and complete fools all at the same time? I think that cliche'd thing is called falling in love head over heels and all that. It is one of the most briefly wonderful yet long-term horrible things that can happen to anyone. It's painful yet wonderful, happy and worrysome, elated and jealous. And I blame it all on a genetic trait for procreation and enitrely hormonaly driven. I should know. I had these rediculous feelings for 3 months and the hangover lasted for 4 years.

But to answer the original question, I'll have to agree with omichyron, each time more slowly than the 1st.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Originally posted by bobgote
but were they in love with you in that brief second before they departed this world?

They love their Fuhrer, but not in that way.

The child known as Riesstiu - Go stand in the corner near the waist level serrated guillotine, and someone will be with you shortly.

 

[rilnator]

How do you know you're in love? I just measure it by the amount of times I think about them or if I really look foward to seeing them.
Unfortunatley I'll get sick of a girl in less than a year which makes me worried coz I'm 27 and no closer to getting married than I was when I was 5.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

You were close to being married at 5? I heard that they do things differently in Bjelke-Petersenland, but not that different!

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Originally posted by Simon Darkshade
Go stand in the corner near the waist level serrated guillotine, and someone will be with you shortly.

I thought it was the salami slicer...I made myself a sandwich

 

[Civrules]

I choose the second option.

 

[Akka]

Originally posted by Loaf Warden
It is my opinion that the word 'love' is being thrown around far too lightly here. I don't believe that "falling head over heels" in love is possible, and I absolutely do not believe in "love at first sight".

I disagree.

Love at first sight DOES exist. Not for everyone, and not often, but it does. There IS plenty of people that lived it, and can certify its existence (myself included). Saying you don't believe in love at first sight it is just like saying you don't believe in homosexual love : both are facts, and though not happening to the majority, they do happen to some people.

Why? Because to me, the word 'love' describes a state of mutual trust, admiration, respect, and consideration. It is something you grow into after knowing someone--and getting to know them!--over a period of time.

Love has many faces.
You can love someone because she's gentle. Or smart. Or because she makes you feel special. Or you can even don't know at all why you love her.
Trust, respect, are fundamental ingredients for a love relationship, but they as much a cause than an effect of love.

Love is an emotion, not a rational thinking. As an emotion, it can be totally irrationnal and contradictory. You CAN love and hate and scorn someone at the same time.
It's in fact quite hard to define love. It's true that it's a word quite often used and abused, particularly to describe what is just a little moment of tenderness, or lust, or a need for company.

Love can't really be described nor defined. It can only be felt. And it can sometimes reveal itself in the most absurd situations, toward the most unexpected person, in the weirdest way.