i think we forget that love is a dynamic thing.
love is alive.
it changes.
it crescendos.
it ebbs and flows. 

you can fall in love with the same person for
a million different reasons and
in a million different ways,
multiple times a day.

you can love them for things
they’ve done in the past and
who they have become.

you can fall out of love,
too.

if you find yourself only loving the past version of that person;
if you do not fall in love with that person daily,
that love is growing stale.

because love is only truly alive
in the present.

love that person for who they are right now,
not for anything they did in the past nor for
anything they promise for the future.

love can only grow in the present.