id rather hear about her day than kiss anyway

what is a mile? it's the basic makeup of measurements, the building block from which we construct our understanding of distance. everyone knows what a mile is but yet it has this very abstract definition. according to the system it's exactly 5280 feet. that doesn't seem too far, in fact it's only 63360 inches. simply the distance between here and there, from the grocery store to your house. what a small world. sometimes this world does feel like that age old cliche that the dolls at disneyland are created to sing about all day and all night. but sometimes our perspective changes and we can feel like tiny little vessels trying to stay afloat in the vast ocean of life. what happens when miles start to feel more like an incomprehensible and unattainable distance? a goal so lofty it seems childish and a waste of time to even dwell on such things. what happens when love finds you unexpectedly and then just as mysteriously and quickly as it entered, it exits? hundreds of miles away. so many inches, it would make any mathematician who dared calculate it mad. what then? that's when we have to ask, what is love? it's the very blueprint of who we are. it's what motivates and inspires us at our very core. everyone knows what love is, yet it has this very abstract definition. according to the system it's an emotion that we are sold and would do anything for. it's a timeless feeling we are taught to search desperately for because we are told we need it to amount to anything. it's a measure of our own worth. but when love is put to the test we see what it's really made of. that's when love expresses its truest form. it sheds its pretty, romanticized exterior. all the little butterflies die and cupid takes his place back in the pages of fairy tales. this is reality but this is where love exposes its most raw and beautiful anatomy. it becomes an action. it becomes a prayer. it becomes a gentle whisper. it becomes a lonely tear. it becomes that emptiness inside left only from giving your whole heart to another. it becomes an aching in your soul too hard to explain. it becomes a bridge and it becomes a purpose. it becomes what it was intended to be. so although it may be strained and somber, love will never give up. it lives deep within our hearts and it will never let go.