I love you because you have been the one around me and my emotions tend towards you. So, if you were not the one around, I would have equally focused my emotions on whoever would have been in that position

This is such a great point. Proximity plays an important role in this, since we can only fall in love with people who are close to us, or whom we have at least come to know at some point. And here is also one thing that social media changed, since it connects us with people from around the world, and that gives us a different kind of proximity.