Your entire view of life and of the world around you changes. You ask yourself, how did this happen?

You were perfectly "happy" being that person at the bar or out with your friends who would look down at couples. You were that person who couldn't understand what was so great about having feelings, strong feelings, for another individual. Sure, you had given the whole "love" thing a go in the past, but you were burned. Instead of trying to find that again, you decided it would be easier to put up these barriers that made you appear distant. You figured you will just be alone for the rest of your life, and so you made adjustments to your life so that you wouldn't be disappointed if that actually did happen.

But in an instant, before you even knew what was happening, all of those cynical, distant and bitter tendencies were taken from you. Maybe you were at work, and this person just walked into your life. Or maybe you were set up by a mutual friend. Either way, you were caught completely off guard.

Instantly, you were attracted to this person, and you were filled with all kinds of new feelings, like hope and anticipation to see him or her again.

If you could step outside of your body in this moment, let me tell you, you wouldn't be able to recognize yourself.

All of that angry rock music you had been listening to solidly for the past however many years has taken a serious back burner in your music rotation. You traded in your angry girl rock like Alanis Morrisette or heavy metal like Linkin Park, and now you catch yourself listening to music that is, gasp, happy and hopeful. Now a song like "Good Day Sunshine" by the Beatles can be found on your playlist.

Even more frightening is that you do not constantly think about how this new "relationship" is going to end badly and leave you broken-hearted. Suddenly you aren't thinking about being alone for the rest of your life. And you aren't making moves to sabotage this good thing you have started.

You start going out together on dates, and you realize that you have become one of those couples that, when you were bitter and cynical, you took pity upon. But now, well, things are different. Things are good, no, great really. And you don't miss your former self that was a ball of bitterness and cynicism.