Why is it called "falling in love"? ( Archived) (31)

It makes not much sense.
Usually, when you fall, from anywhere onto anything it involves pain, or at the very least a brief yet intense moment of fear as you stumble and gasp at the sudden possibility of a piece of pavement smacking you hard over that face of yours with which you unintentionally are arriving towards ground at what seems is Mach speed. Sometimes you break an arm when you fall. I did my military service in the navy and we had this fellow in our 12-man cabin who was more clumsy than a drugged baboon attempting a game of miniature Mikado. He fell down the steep steps leading from upper deck down towards the main. It sure didn't look like he enjoyed falling, that lad.
"I'm falling in love"?
It doesn't sound very pleasant, does it?
On top of it, it sounds random. Like someone happened to arrive at that state with me, as if it was by accident rather than due to one of my good sides having touched her own good inner self.

Who came up with this bit of falling? I'm struggling to find a possible reason behind the phrase becoming as classic as it is.
I can see someone fell off a roof, someone within construction who's renovating the orange ceramics often sheltering a house from weather, and as he steps on one of these tiles up on the roof it slides underneath his feet, surprises him, has him fly down that height like a kite set on fire, he lands on the front, takes the hit with his back, with the owner's daughter having been stood at the kitchen window sipping from a glass of lemonade, she witnessed it all as he drops past that window, and she rushes out to check on him, to see if everything is alright. As he gets back to his senses the first thing he records is her lovely being there leaning over him, asking him if he is alright, and from that moment his heart is hers. He fell for her because it was meant for him to take that fall? Is this where it might stem from?

Or, is it that the first person in history who ever felt the sensation, he recognized it, it appeared during the season called autumn, which is sometimes called Fall?
Falling in love on a Friday fall night?
I might make that into a song.

How do you come up with a better for "I have fallen in love"? Despite the contradiction between a love and some bodily plunge which often brings pain, it is perfect contradiction, is it not? It is what we do. We fall. head over heals, which is another odd structure of words describing when life's taken you to its most beautiful places.
"I've fallen head over heals in love with you"
How on earth do you translate that into any lingo of any language where these phrases are not familiar?
I bet you a Maori hunter of whales, if I tried have it directly translated into his language, he would think I be a wuss who allowed a woman trip me to the ground with an outstretched leg at a café and I've broken an ankle, possibly a fractured nose as well, some woman who violently decided I was the one to be picked to pick her. Because as I have said before it is always the woman who picks her man who is to pick her. We never pick her directly.

What construction can replace the words of "I have fallen in love"?
Those words with which you enter a new day, in your state between dreams and awakened, when it suddenly dawns on you, that bliss of someone you found. You know that feeling you sometimes have when you wake and know something quite vital happened the previous eve, and you are for a slight little brief moment lost as to what it was. Good or bad? Grand or sad? You are in-between two states, and then you remember. And then your smile which spreads on your face is so radiating glorious it challenges the divine in the beams from the sun entering through your bedroom window.

Someone's captured my heart?
I am lost for words as I think of her?
Captured, lost, falling, heads over heals.
Is it a warning within all these phrases?

I need to come up with a new one.

because it cathes you off guard, like a stray wire you didn;t see and trip over, its not a trap.

Falling in love" is a mainly Western term used to describe the process of moving from a feeling of neutrality towards someone to one of love. The usage of the term "fall" implies many things: that the process may have been in some way inevitable or uncontrollable, risky or putting the lover in a state of vulnerability, that the process is irreversible, or all of these things. The term is generally used to describe an (eventual) love that is strong, although not necessarily permanent.

It is what became of the words

"Falling head over heals in love."

It was shortened to just be falling in love.

I actually like the term falling head over heels better...cause I think it feels more like tripping....

I think it feels like it does when you're falling. Your heart beats harder, your stomach flips with excitement, just as if you're falling.

What she said

IMHO, I don't like the expression "falling in Love"

it sounds like love is a hole and you always get injured falling.

Someone told me that it is because we are always falling but few that are lucky to find love to fall in to it and be saved by Love.

could be???

I like to say, "flying with Love"

it is surly an experience of freedom for the soul when you have love inside you but when you lose that love??? now you are falling.

Cheers

Because unless you have a parachute you're doomed.