How do you know that you're in love?

People say you know and that is correct. When you find yourself thinking about that person all the time and you smile a lot. You want to spend all your time with them and do things to make them happy. You examine them closely and you see everything wonderful about them and their flaws too, but you love, love, love them. You offer your heart to them. You hope they treat it like you offer it.
I think age colours how we love. We bring our hopes, our experiences-everything before us-with us. It might make us love more deeply as we value true love. It might make us love more cautiously as we have been hurt before. But it is love. And love is the most wonderful thing in the world. It sets us free to do what we were born to do. To offer ourselves, our heart and our whole being to another. When it is true, it is glorious. When it is not, we either try again or build walls.