215 Reasons Why I Love Ariel

She is

  1. Incredibly intelligent
  2. self aware
  3. staggeringly beautiful
  4. Creative
  5. a truly amazing person
  6. able to change and become an even better person
  7. holding at the perfect weight for her body
  8. honest
  9. open
  10. sweet
  11. amazing
  12. unlike anybody else in the whole world
  13. talented
  14. able to let me into her life despite everything that’s happened to her
  15. the strongest person I’ve ever met
  16. the bravest person in the whole world
  17. A Griffinclaw
  18. amazing with kids (seriously, how does she do it?  she went into my grade 5 class once and they kept asking for her to come back for days and were overjoyed when she finally did, and actually enjoyed herself while babysitting a couple severely autistic kids as I freaked out)
  19. secretly a fey
  20. a spirit of the forest
  21. not broken, but a beautiful salad of separated things that make a beautiful whole

  22. she secretly looks like this inside.  It’s awesome.
  23. delicious
  24. addictive
  25. just as weird as I am!  huzzah!
  26. a spectacular artist as a whole
  27. graceful whenever she wants to be
  28. Honestly the best singer I’ve ever met
  29. an amazing visual artist
  30. an astounding musician 
  31. the love of my life
  32. my inspiration
  33. able to escape from the clutches of pure evil
  34. not Jekyll and Hyde
  35. an amazing person who’s done nothing wrong
  36. somehow able to sustain her art through more pain than I can ever comprehend
  37. not broken
  38. not a doll
  39. the most spectacular human being I have ever met or will ever meet
  40. the love of my life
  41. the one
  42. a flower with the magical ability to grow even when there is no light
  43. accepting of my faults
  44. someone I can be completely honest with
  45. my inspiration
  46. going to make a difference in the world
  47. a good hostess
  48. perfect in her imperfections
  49. going to have her ass kicked during our future Propose-A-Thon (I will propose in more/weirder ways.  You’re going downnnnnnnn (when she wins I will smile and accept defeat)
  50. beautiful, inside and out
  51. spectacular
  52. love in human form
  53. free
  54. not a burden, and needs to stop thinking she is
  55. unbelievably loving through adversity
  56. kind enough to let the others have their own lives
  57. loving 
  58. so much more than she will ever know
  59. the most important person in my life
  60. mine <3 (meaning I am the luckiest person in all of history to have her in my life, and she is her own brilliant individual)

She can

  1. grow as a person
  2. keep an open mind
  3. draw
  4. sing
  5. create beautiful things
  6. love
  7. learn
  8. let go of the things that hurt her 
  9. go through difficult things to prevent worse pain in the future
  10. remain honest even when life is insane
  11. let me hold her, despite negative past events
  12. accept my apologies when i screw up
  13. forgive me
  14. stay connected with herself
  15. understand where she needs to go in order to grow
  16. fix knots 
  17. give amazing massages
  18. inspire me like nothing and no one else
  19. fuel my drive and my future
  20. take care of herself
  21. stay safe
  22. accept logic
  23. think critically <3
  24. accept spirituality within reason
  25. understand when I think a forest spirit is going to live forever without mocking me too much or thinking me strange
  26. care about people
  27. accept me 
  28. love endlessly
  29. never give up
  30. find her way
  31. help me to understand the world
  32. do awesome things with makeup
  33. keep me safe
  34. give me hope
  35. survive
  36. think critically about what’s happening
  37. heal
  38. save lives 
  39. find paradise within hell
  40. make my heart skip a beat with a single glance
  41. find her way
  42. forgive
  43. fill me with indescribably joy
  44. still sing
  45. help us survive even during times when I’ve doubted myself
  46. say yes (Ariel, I challenge you to a Propose-A-Thon, during which I propose to you in all the ridiculous ways I’ve come up with because I can’t choose just one.  You may do the same if you’re so inclined)
  47. find true love even after being exposed to horror
  48. enjoy cats
  49. appreciate the few beautiful moments that still exist on this godforsaken rock of a planet
  50. cloud my eyes with beauty
  51. speak french
  52. speak to the trees
  53. be there for the others 
  54. make me change and grow for the better
  55. compose beautiful music
  56. trust that I will never leave her
  57. trust that I will never think of her as broken, or different because of her horrible past
  58. trust me
  59. kick ass
  60. understand that she is not a commodity
  61. let herself be the brilliant person she is, without falling into darkness
  62. find joy again
  63. make me happier than I’ve ever felt before
  64. make ridiculous puns that somehow don’t make me hate her (how does she do it?  I don’t know)
  65. destroy me in 4 words if she wanted to
  66. make me trust that she could never do that
  67. fight for what’s right
  68. show me that there is still hope
  69. a bird with a broken wing can learn to fly a helicopter
  70. make me come up with weird metaphors
  71. accept them
  72. dance with the trees
  73. accept others
  74. love

She lets me

  1. play with her hair
  2. kiss her
  3. stay in her life 
  4. sing with her
  5. sing for her
  6. be whatever I want to be
  7. express myself without censorship
  8. be myself, and give myself to her completely
  9. create entire blogs about how amazing she is without being terribly creeped out
  10. learn how to massage
  11. do terrible gollum impressions and say ridiculous and inappropriate things at absurdly inappropriate times (“there’s a clown behind you!  it’s Tim Curry!”)
  12. quote voldemort
  13. spend time with her
  14. bask in her light
  15. enjoy her company
  16. love her
  17. help design dresses
  18. write songs for her
  19. know about her life (what’s wrong, what’s right, how everything/everyone is)
  20. understand
  21. protect her
  22. make playlists for her (what I’m doing now)
  23. talk to her every day
  24. text incessantly 
  25. fill her sketchbook with love
  26. show her my ridiculous TV shows and songs that I enjoy
  27. be the best I can be
  28. sleep next to her
  29. do her hair
  30. know
  31. speak her name, knowing that it’s like honey on my tongue
  32. tell her anything
  33. listen
  34. love her
  35. repeat things that are worth repeating
  36. believe in her
  37. dedicate my time to making her happy
  38. fall
  39. in
  40. love

She has

  1. a bright future ahead
  2. a superior intellect 
  3. spectacular, original, creative art
  4. eyes that sparkle with inner vision
  5. no dick (huzzah!  PRAISE JESUS)
  6. amazing visual arts abilities
  7. beautiful music within
  8. shimmering hair
  9. the wisdom to change when necessary
  10. become the most amazing person in the world
  11. found where she belongs
  12. hilarious bite marks everywhere
  13. great taste 
  14. the ability to harmonize (HALLELUJAH)
  15. the strength to one day understand that she is so much more than what she thinks she is
  16. scars.  and she has accepted how they got there and will move forward.
  17. people to help her when she’s in trouble
  18. art that she must produce, because if she does not create, the planet suffers an immense loss
  19. lifted a veil from my eyes
  20. given me hope for a new life
  21. to keep singing, or the planet will lose great art
  22. a heart full of love
  23. risked her life for me
  24. an air of beauty around her
  25. my entire soul in her possession
  26. hope

I 

  1. would follow her to the ends of the earth
  2. give my entire heart to her forever
  3. love her more than I’ll ever be able to express
  4. am hers
  5. would sacrifice anything to have her in my life
  6. don’t need the money, the fame, or the huge career for any reason other than to help provide for us
  7. only need her
  8. would swim across the atlantic to see her smile
  9. would kill to keep her safe
  10. will save the world for her
  11. will always love her.  
  12. love her unconditionally
  13. give myself to her entirely
  14. dedicate my life, and every one of my creations to her
  15. have faith in her