But maybe it has actually happened to you. You have lived William Shakespeare’s impossible proclamation of love and you have found your soul mate in one cursory but extremely meaningful glance. Many people would dismiss my hypothesis about love at first sight and claim, No one believes in love at first sight until that special someone comes along and changes everything. Yet, despite my lack of experience with love at first sight, I still stand by my belief that it is indeed a myth. However, I do not doubt that love can develop from a chance meeting or exchanged glance between two unsuspecting strangers. Victor Hugo once said, “Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only,” and I believe that he is correct. Everything begins with that first look. There is no doubt that a connection can be made in mere seconds, but love, that real can’t live without each other, dizzying, and all consuming feeling, only comes with truly knowing a person. There is no telling how many looks, conversations, dates, days, or years it will take to get to understand someone, but Hugo wasn’t lying when he suggested that it all begins with that first sighting. Believe what you want about love at first sight, but recognize that when it comes to the real thing, love is much more than a first impression.