Hopeless Romantic

What do you do when you fall in love with someone who is a world away? Someone who is living such a different life from you, so much so that you can't even imagine it, can't wrap your mind around it. But, you have a connection, a friendship, a desire, a longing...for him...even though he is so very far away. Not necessarily geographically. Not yet, anyway. But, in life. What you are ready for, he is not yet ready for. What you want, he is probably not yet ready to give. But you made a connection, you felt something, you still feel it...you feel it even more now because with time....feelings grow, unless they fade away. But, for now, they are growing...even though he is a world away.
You are a hopeless romantic, searching for, and hoping to find, The One. You know it can't be just any ordinary One...it has to be someone...something...that is extra-ordinary, extraordinary. For you there can be no ordinary love...it has to be dramatic, passionate, gripping, forbidden, unfathomable, almost impossible. You are a drama queen. Do you always just want what you can't have? Does having your heart enraptured with an impossibility just keep you safe? Safe from getting hurt again because, in your mind, you know this can't really happen for real. Or can it? Either way, you choose to live in your heart, your mind always takes a back seat...in your heart anything is possible, in your heart you don't have to close the door on him or on the possibility of "Us"...in your heart that connection, that infatuation, that lust, that love can conquer all...in the heart of a hopeless romantic.
He is on a path that is going to take him far, far away from you. You want to take him home with you and keep him there forever, in the safety of your arms, to hold him and love him and protect him...to smother him with kisses and all the love you've saved up inside...everything you've been holding, guarding, protecting....while waiting for the right One. And when you weren't expecting it, you came upon him, however briefly, and you can't let him go, don't want to let him go...instead, you want to give him your heart, give him all of you, because...you think he deserves it...you adore him, you care about him, you're proud of him, you're worried for him. So what do you do when the man who has captured your heart is living a world away?