An Ode to Zula - Part 2

Good Afternoon. 

Mr. Chairman, 

Panel of judges, 

Mr Time keeper,

My fellow debaters 

and of coarse: My ever loving audience. 

The topic before us today is: "Is it truly possible to love someone you don't really know." 

To be so infatuated by the romantic ideology of your togetherness and blinded to their obnoxious imperfections?

Absolutely. 

The Webster dictionary will define love as 

"A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness."

Case 1:  Deep

Have you ever met someone you know you will always love. Something in their chemical make up that easily and naturally defuses all your defenses, inexplicably taking parts of your inner attention without your sanction or permission. 

It goes deep beyond the physical.

A spiritual or unconscious connection which feels like this unexplainable force of energy. 

You can feel it every time you hear her voice, when she holds my hand or just barely touches me.

You can see it in her eyes. The kind that inspires. Gives Strength.  Encourages. Motivates.  

Surely, there will be more experiences in my life like this. How could I meet only one?

Case 2 :Tender

I woke up from the type of sleep that takes you a minute to figure out who you are, and where you are and you snuggled up to me, buried your sleepy face in my chest and passed out. 

That was the single most sweetest thing I'd ever felt. And it was because it came from you. No one else. 

It was such a loving gesture and I wasn't prepared for what it was doing to me. What it still does to me. 

There's not an empty longing for the same although that would be nice but for the actual reality of a feeling an emotion an experience I've never thought possible. 

Only because it came from you. 

Case 3: Oneness.

  “Doubt thou the stars are fire,

  Doubt that the sun doth move,

  Doubt truth to be a liar,

  But never doubt I love.

        I feel our souls combine"

 - Hamlet. 

Maybe God gave us this brief moment of happiness to hold on to, so it will always be there to give our lives sunshine when we need it. 

Your own personal reservoir of happiness. X marks the spot. 

There may be a time in the future when one or the other of us needs comfort to make life go on. You and I will have the power necessary to overcome anything. 

I feel a completeness with you.

In conclusion, 

Whether you are with someone for 5 minutes or for 30 years. It is entirely possible to be with someone and never truly know them. 

You can however. Love. 

It's a choice and I chose you. 

- Folifiasco the Jedi.