Hi. My name is Shoni, and i'm a Hopeless Romantic!

The other day my friend called me a "hopeless romantic" 

and for the first time, i paused before i answered, to actually think about what i was going to say (shocking, i know!) and i said, "you know what, I'm the most hopeless romantic there ever was".

My idea of romance has nothing to do with the conventional ideal of a man wooing a woman,

No,

My idea of romance is more of a feeling,

and not just any type of feeling,

that feeling you get when you're dreaming that you're falling,

and right before you hit the ground,

you wake up

 - that moment there, that feeling.

When i love, my whole body reacts,

My chest tightens up,

My toes straighten out,

The hair at the back of my neck stands

And I start to feel the physical equivalent of  the word "happy".

I get shivers down my spine.

My mind literally expands, my thoughts overflow.

My heart stops and I start to hear music,
an untitled yet familiar melody I've never heard before,

I let every chord travel through my body.

I let every word sink into my skin.

I let every harmony fall like angel dust from the sky into my Ora,
and I'll know, I'll just know.

The eye of the tornado is the calmest place to be in a storm. 

 When your world is falling to pieces around you,

 but you are the personification of solace.

 That's what i believe love is, 

that's when you know it's love.

That's why when i love, i love hard. 

You can't just get to that stage if you don't go all in, 

It's simple math really, high risk, high reward.

I don't think that it is a coincidence that i connect that feeling of falling to my death to falling in love,

i don't think that it is a coincidence that going through a break up is a lot like mourning the death of a loved one.

I think that humans are different yes, but we relate in love,

and it's not the overt love I'm talking about,

in fact, 

let's remove possessions and currency completely from this picture I've painted

and let's add a backing track, 

Bob Marley - Is This Love.

"I wanna love you and treat you right;

I wanna love you every day and every night:

We'll be together with a roof right over our heads;

We'll share the shelter of my single bed;

We'll share the same room, yeah! - for Jah provide the bread."