1 Finally, Chinese New Year family reunions are no longer grouped together in terms of pain levels -- with visits to the dentist, filling your tax returns or hacking off your arm without any anesthesia.
2 Because you're always smiling for no obvious reasons, you are a much nicer person to be around.
3 Now, you understand what it means to get that funny knot in the stomach and dizziness that you're always read about in Barbara Cartland novels (for her) or watched in stalker movies (for him).
4 You always have someone to share that holiday experience.
5 Why people would even think about having children, adult responsibilities, a house, mortgage and station-wagon finally make sense.
6 A bad day at the office will always end in the evening with a comforting word and a hug.
7 Love songs and Meg Ryan movies no longer make you violently ill.
8 It's nice to think about someone -- in a good way -- the first thing in the morning, and again the last thing in the evening.
9 It's no longer embarrassing to cry during a late return of "It's a Wonderful Life".
10 Office meetings are much more bearable because while you appear to be busy taking notes, you are, in fact, just scribbling the name of your beloved all over the page.
11 You realise that there is more to life than just work.
12 You stop taking things and people, such as your parents, for granted.
13 The days (even the dreary, wet ones) just seem that little much brighter and happier.
14 For some reason, you become braver, and tend to dream bigger dreams.
15 You no longer object to public displays of affection.
16 You wonder if this was how your parents felt when they first met, and you began to understand them a little bit more.
17 You suddenly feel this urge to learn how to cook.
18 Poetry, why people write poems in the first place and why your horrid English Literature professor forced you to read rhyming couplets, begin to make a little more sense.
19 Your desk feels less bare and impersonal with framed pictures of the one you love.
20 You finally feel grown up.