i have been led to believe , in my experience with being in-love, that love is based on the knowledge gained and profound simplicity of feeling entirely connected and enamored with another person; that this feeling takes time after a period of time in which the party in question would eat together, go on hikes, dancing, movies, borrow a shirt, go to church, beach etc. whatever / estimating anywhere from one week to 5 months ... & sometimes even longer than that. (I KNOW) - those of you who believe in love at first sight ... well you're another breed... anyway... love at first sight ... like i was saying ... I went to the store tonight. I bought toilet paper and beer. I stood in a very long line. I watched a woman put back a box of ice-cream and felt proud of her; even though she didn't look happy for doing it - she just didn't want to stand in that line and would probably get ice cream elsewhere! On my walk back from that grocery store (about half a block from the store) I looked up from lifting the beer because it wasn't comfortable to hold it how i was holding it .... and I saw someone walking to their car This girl The girl this girl and she smiled at me she wore a beanie and she was thin and her hair was brown i think I only saw her for 5 or 6 seconds which at the time felt like a long time but my short term memory isn't great sometimes and her face is starting to fade now but i still see it i see her neck and I see her smile it embarrassed me a little it's funny when you grin at someone I grin at people on the street all the time it's quick it's fixed but a smile ... it has levels this one went from a friendly grin to a shy growing smile with eyes and shoulders and heart and stomach and I didn't know about that difference (until tonight) but it filled me up and i felt drunk on it and i felt everything and i felt all of it in 5 seconds and it's bugging me now because i can't shake it and i don't know why i've never felt like this not one bit and i went home and i told my best friend and she told me to write about it so here I am and it's been a few hours now and my friend is alseep and I think she's asleep and I should be asleep and I think i'm over it now or just over thinking and over thinking but i'm still thinking about it and i haven't really climbed so i'm not over anything so i'll keep smiling instead because it made me smile and that felt good and i just want to sit with that and she gave me that and that's all it has to be so I believe in love at first sight it's the best