Short story, this one took a bit of courage for me to pen.

Short story time....

This is quite a short tale, rather it is only part of a greater whole. You see, emotions can be a funny little thing, they make you do things that you never thought possible for yourself before. And sometimes, you get so worked up, you almost forget who you are for a moment, but maybe, you discover who you are. You see, there are many emotions one can feel, but the most powerful one of all is also the one that is most confusing. Love. Simple love can drive a person to accomplish great things, or cause terrible calamities. Love can be like oxygen to a person, keeping their dreams and hope alive, or yet it can be a deadly poison, intoxicating the person until their heart shatters. Love is a double edged sword, and this short little tale is about one such instance.

You see there once lived a man who was a simple, yet energetic young man. He had dreams of grandeur, and if he wasn't dreaming about some adventure he would love to be having, he was dreaming of his future. He was sure it was a simple path of work and reward until he could retire happily in old age. But his simple views on life would change oh so suddenly, and it was all over a smile.

Yes, a smile can be a powerful tool when it comes to the hearts of people. A smile can uplift a person's soul out of the depths of Hades itself and bathe his soul in a warm light. A smile so simple, yet completely sincere it nearly struck the simple man dumb at first sight. He was entranced by it, and he came to be enamored by it as well.

She was simply beautiful. Of course he could go over all the intricacies that he loved about the girl, but to make it simple, she was beautiful. A vibrant personality full of a spark of life that this man had never before seen.

He was dumbfounded, how could his simple heart so suddenly beat out of his chest for someone he had never met before. Someone he never knew. He had to find out why, why did his body suddenly tremble at the thought of her, his heart flutter in such a way he thought he could just pass at any moment.

You see this girl lived far far away from him, over mountains, rivers and a whole ocean, yet this man ignored the distance. To him, no distance was too great for him to try to find more about this beautiful girl. But how could he do it? He wondered for days and days, though he was a very busy man, any time he had a free moment he would think of new ways to grab her attention from afar, across the thousand miles that separated them he thought endlessly.

Soon enough, the man began to do things he hadn't done since his youth. He had been hammered into a shape his family and friends wanted him to be. When he was a younger person, he was always playing music, writing fantastic adventures, or even going on some adventures himself. He was fearless, confident and bold. But as he grew into the man he was today, he was constantly beaten down, abused, then eventually he gave into being a simpler soul.

But now that spark that he once had began a new, that smile that intoxicated his thoughts for so long had brought back the music, the art, the stories, the adventure! Oh, what adventures he had planned and all because he wanted to show that one beautiful girl how much she had helped him change back into something he once thought was gone forever.

He also slowly began to realize something as well. Not only did she help revitalize his lost vigor, his heart told him something else too. “Love.” Now when it came to this subject he became very frightened. He once thought he loved before but it turned out to be something that shattered him utterly, and was the catalyst for his previous downfall. He was scared because his heart was ready to invest into something he did not quite understand. He was also scared that he would frighten the beautiful girl away. He wished sorely for the beautiful girl to have some inkling of feelings toward him, but for now, just knowing that she knew he existed gave him hope, for he did not wish to rush or push her, but rather support her and hope things went naturally.

He loved the girl, she gave him a new ambition, something to strive for, something to reach out in his troubled dreams and to hold onto. He wanted to support her in hardship, love her unconditionally, and to make her smile again like the day he first saw her so long ago.