suthernlover's blog post - Love at first sight

excuse this diversion as I have no other place to put this...

There are many kinds of love. There is the kind of love you feel for object; oh I just love that. There is the kind of love you feel for places or times. Then there are the kinds of love you feel for people, and there are at least two kinds of that love... a love that is bourn over time and tribulation that suffers together and apart, that kind of love that develops over time. But there is a very special kind of love that many do not believe in or that it is real or can even happen. Love at first sight.
I have long pondered that question, whether there can actually be a love like that or whether it is just lust or longing. But sitting here tonight of all nights, right after a rejection, it comes to me… we all do it at one point or another, the question is if we believe it’s really happening.
As things go, I was intermingling these thoughts with visions and memories of my child, and suddenly I knew the answer.
Love at first sight is most definitely possible and long lasting and as beautiful as the one long sought and fought for. I know this now because it happened to me…the morning my Daughter was born. Until that moment my wife was pregnant and bitchy and thorny and cranky and generally unlovable but I was committed to her. Then in an instant there she was a whole person that I really didn't know, all I knew was I was in love with her.
So you see, love at first sight is possible. And no matter what detractors say, it is real, and if nurtured it is as powerful and yes as devastating as the other kinds.