A Leap Of Faith...

Why does the term 'Leap of faith' mean to jump blindly into something?
I Grant you that faith is blind. Faith is something you need to have in something else when it claims to be true yet cannot provide any evidence...but that doesn't mean faith is something you obtain with no prior knowledge. Faith, with all due respect, is the most educated guess you can make. When we think of faith, we usually think of God. People chose to believe in God - people chose to have faith in God - when they can accept the things they've been told through the scriptures. There's nothing written in the scriptures that provide cold hard facts to anyone, but there are a lot of things that are hard to believe. Yet people chose, not to overlook those facts, but to see them as a test of their faith in that almighty being. That being that is so much greater than themselves that he can make these seemingly impossible things realistic. It takes a great deal of faith to believe that there is a God(s), but that's not a decision any believer ever takes lightly, blindly, or without education.
Love is also something that needs a great deal of faith. Love is very similar to believing in God, nobody can prove it exists (sure, Doctors can say different parts of the brain is stimulated when a person is in love), but the only person who knows it exists is the person who is in love. Just like the person who believes in God, they just know he exists...they don't need the scientific proof. And it's with this inner-proof that they jump with both feet deep into the faith, which holds them securely and strongly, like the embrace of a parent comforting a scared child.
These people - the ones who have faith, in whatever it is - are the luckiest people in this world. They have an inner knowledge, something that fills the hole that exists in everyone's heart until that day they find love, or realise they have God in their life. There are so many other forms of faith, but when you have it in such an all-encompassing manner, that is a person gifted with something special
Personally, I am too confused and not intelligent enough to figure out what's the deal with higher beings, deities and other such things on that level; And love? I've either never been lucky enough or never been brave enough to find this, but I always hope to myself that it would never stop me taking that leap of faith. And if you're out there in the same shoes as me, whether you make your educated guess with your heart or with your mind, just remember to do one thing:
Leap with both feet!