Love is something that everyone in life is trying to obtain. Even those that build themselves up like a brick wall, all they truly need is someone to shine some light into their heart and set their souls free. Since everyone is trying to obtain it, it is probably the hardest thing in life to come by. True love is rarely seen now in our time. Divorce is the newest way to make some money. Affairs are all the rage to add some thrill to your relationships. Lust has now overpowered love.  Money has blinded true beauty with greed. We all dream of the perfect love, but few, if any, will truly find life long happiness.
Though many believe they are hopeless romantics, not many are.  Sure, many people say they enjoy long walks on the beach at sunset, candlelit dinners, stargazing with the love of your life, and making shapes out of the clouds, but not many people actually do it. They are just dreams not your true personality. You cannot say you enjoy soft rock music but continue to listen to vulgar rap. You cannot say you’ll die for the one you are with, only to divorce them later. To be a hopeless romantic, it has to control your life, you have to dedicate your life to it, feel it in the songs you sing, hear it in the words you speak, see it in the poems you write. You have to embrace it and when you find that one, you have a better chance of knowing it than anyone else. You have dedicated yourself to the feeling that love truly gives and can tell the difference between love and lust. Yet your partner may not be able to and though you may love them, they may never love you back. As a hopeless romantic, you recognize this and learn to let them go. You can be happy knowing the love of your life is happy with somebody else. This is the sacrifice of being a hopeless romantic.
Now, not many people in this world will do that. They will not be satisfied unless their love is always with them and they imprison them with their obsessions. This is not a hopeless romantic; this is just pure insanity. A hopeless romantic learns to let go, and though they may never feel the same joy as they did with this person, they learn that it is for the best. They express themselves through flowing poetry, rocking to the music of love melodies, and staring up at heavens searching for the answers of the universe [which we are still trying to find]. We learn to remember the good and forget the bad. We live for the moments that cannot be expressed by words. When we have lost the battle, we fall back into the shadows and let time sweep over us. We speak of hope and try to be optimistic even though it seems the situation is hopeless.
Hopeless. We are a true romantic that wants nothing more in this life than to matter. To put a smile on someone else’s face because they love us for just being us. They see pass the flaws, the corky little things we do, and see the beauty within. Sometimes it’s hard to find a person like that, sometimes we keep searching until we reach the end of our chain and can no longer proceed. Some of us die before we ever find that right person. Some of us were never meant to love at all. Some of us are destined to give our hearts to many but never expect anything back. Some of us were made to struggle through life without any clear path of where they are going. A hopeless romantic could be many things, but they all hold something in common: a dream of pure love and romance that never fades as the years go by. Now that is what it takes to be a hopeless romantic.