ALMOST a year...

You can learn a lot about someone in (almost) a year, what makes them happy, the foods they'll eat and the types of movies they like. When you have known someone for a year, chances are you will be able to ramble off numerous facts about them.


However, when you are in love with someone for a year, you learn a whole series of different things. You begin to learn the patterns in their face when they lie, the way they portray emotions that don't quite reach their eyes and what it means when they tell you a story but can't look you in the eye. You know the subtle difference between when they are pretending to be happy and when they are full of happiness, you communicate flawlessly with words not yet created and you can count every crevice that lies upon their face.

When you love someone for a year it becomes a peculiar thing; you realize that you know someone in a way that perhaps no one will ever know them again and you become immersed in their being that you cannot bear to let them disappear into the nothingness that remains in case no one ever deciphers him the way you could.

If there is anything you learn after a year, it is how to let someone go, but never stop loving them because you have learnt to love them in a way you never knew you could.