I’ll Say it Again. Love is an Action.

I think we tend to get hung up on the idea of a fairy tale romance. I know I did, for a greater portion of my life than I care to admit. I feel like the media greatly skews our perspective of love. As a child I watched a movie where a mermaid traded in her voice for a pair of legs after locking eyes with a prince, obviously falling in love at first sight, and decided to risk life (and dare I say limb) to pursue a relationship with him. Spoiler alert — despite obvious attempts to thwart her pursuits and no way of communicating with him whatsoever, he falls deeply in “love” with her and…