From this moment on

From This Moment On - Shania Twain

From this moment life has begun
From this moment you are the one
Right beside you is where I belong
From this moment on

From this moment I have been blessed
I live only for your happiness
And for your love I'd give my last breath
From this moment on

I give my hand to you with all my heart
I can't wait to live my life with you, I can't wait to start
You and I will never be apart
My dreams came true because of you

From this moment as long as I live
I will love you, I promise you this
There is nothing I wouldn't give
From this moment on

You're the reason I believe in love
And you're the answer to my prayers from up above

All we need is just the two of us
My dreams came true because of you

From this moment as long as I live
I will love you, I promise you this
There is nothing I wouldn't give
From this moment on

I will love you as long as I live
From this moment on

As overplayed as this song can be during weddings, I can really fall in love with it over and over again with each listen. The message is short, simple and sweet - that all I ever want to do from this moment onwards is to belong to you, to fall in love with you over and over again, and to live in the dream I've been having every night. I was listening to Shania talk about how she and her husband derived at the song (yes, she wrote this absolutely sweet song, melody and all, with her husband), and she mentioned how she just escaped into this alternative, romantic world during a noisy soccer match and wrote most of the parts in her head, there and then.

While not every romance ends with marriage vows and wedding bands, I hold true to the belief that to be wholly in love with someone it's not just about the little impulses, the butterflies, the hugs and kisses, the flowers and diamonds, the presents, the time spent together or the physical things. It's about mutual acceptance, trust, honesty, forgiveness, altruism, and the little pitholes. And most importantly, it's about treating each other like family; like someone you know you wouldn't want to lose your entire life, and like a part of yourself you wouldn't want to get rid of.

And while I continue to drown myself in this song, my readings and little visions of my loved one, I hope this could inspire people out there to think long and hard about what they want from their relationships. Companionship? Sweet, unrequitted love? Or is your idea of love a flawed one?