Love is Friendship Set On Fire

Hmm, just saw a poem on the internet, I like the name of it, Love Is Friendship Set On Fire. I was watching the news this morning whilst working out. They were doing a feature story on a matchmaker, a Hitch kind of a guy. During the course of the story they showed a couple meeting for the first time on a date set up by this matchmaker. Towards the end the commentator said, well if they don't get involved romantically, they can still be friends, I thought the world has it all backwards, sure there should be a physical attraction for the person you love, but why not be friends first. I think being friends is highly underrated. I think being friends first makes love stronger. People are always looking for that outward attraction, but what they don't realize is that it is the inward attraction that makes love last. I always like movie quotes and this is one of my absolute favorites, it comes from a movie where the guy fell in love with the woman before he saw her, she feeling inadequate physically passes off her beautiful tall blond neighbor as herself and all the time he thinks the blond is the one he fell in love with and it is never quite right between him and the blond because she is not her, he loves her. When the final scenes are playing out the one he really loves asks him to tell why he loves the blonde, he still thinking the blond is the woman he is in love with starts listing everything she is inside and the real woman says, and don't forget to say, because you're beautiful, he says she is beautiful, but that's not why I love her, then he delivers the best lines in the movie---You know how someone's appearance can change the longer you know them? How a really attractive person, if you don't like them, can become more and more ugly; whereas someone you might not have even have noticed... that you wouldn't look at more than once, if you love them, can become the most beautiful thing you've ever seen. All you want to do is be near them. ---- Yes, when you love someone all you want to do is be near them because they are the most beautiful person in your eyes and loving them is joy to your heart.