Beloved Dearly

"If I fall in love with someone else, I will tell him or her now, and not shyly procrastinate, thereby dooming the object of my affection to perish, just as I was building up the courage to make my feelings known."— **Peader Lubalin**

When you see them, your palms grow sweaty. You try to stabilize yourself, but your knees begin to wobble. Your stomach twists in knots. This person makes your throat dry, and you struggle to find the proper words to greet them. Your heart palpitates so fast and hard that you believe the whole school can hear your heartbeat. However, seeing them once makes your entire day. We all have been through that feeling when we see that someone special and our stomach is filled with thousand butterflies, or we literally skip a heartbeat when we see them.

However, there are many times, when we just don't want to accept that we are falling madly, deeply, and truly *in love* with this person. While it's happening, a person is often unaware of their crush symptoms, and would always deny it if confronted with their behavior. While we don't often like to admit it, having a crush indicates common love signs.

## Examples Include

1. Fool For Love: It’s called a crush for a reason. They *crush* your inner strength, make you weak and uneasy, they make you say stupid things and make you panic about everything. That’s the fun part. Enjoy the complete panic, multiple failures and the joy of happiness if you get what you are looking for... it’s incredibly fun and exciting!
2. First Love: You're shy because you like this person and you might be afraid of making a mistake or looking foolish. You may let your thoughts, feelings, and emotions about this person stop you from functioning normally. If you're shy, the challenge is that you won't be giving your full self to the person they like. Their attraction to you will come from your openness, your full expression of your unique personality, and from you being comfortable.
3. Flowers of Romance: Sometimes it's hard to be yourself around your crush! Crushes can provoke intense feelings that lead to anxiety and nervousness. Whether you have a romantic crush, a platonic crush or an identity crush, it can be very difficult to act normal. Having a crush causes you to project your idealizations onto this person. Sometimes they are not who you think they are. If anything will happen, let it happen naturally.
4. Aborted Declaration of Love: We don't think there is anything wrong with keeping your crush secret. We're the same way. For us, we think it's because we don't trust them not to make fun of us and not tell another person.
5. Girl of My Dreams: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
6. Crush Blush: When suddenly you just cannot contain your happiness, and are smiling for absolutely no reasons, then this is a sure sign of you falling in love with that special someone. You just can’t stop blushing; be it in their presence or even in their absence, you smile and blush thinking about the happy times you have spent with them.
7. Gibberish of Love: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
8. All Love Is Unrequited: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
9. Love Makes You Dumb: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
10. Love Makes You Crazy: That's right, super crazy! Even the mere mention of your crush's name cheers you up! No matter how much busy you are, even if you hear their name in someone else's conversation, it instantly lights up your face and skips a heart beat.