Monday, February 02, 2004
love is....
recently, someone asked me to complete the sentence 'love is....'. i felt like i was in high school all over again where they always asked us to complete an essay with the opening...'once upon a time...there was a boy'. usually i'd have ideas running through my head immediately. the boy was actually a girl...the boy was trapped in the body of a girl....blah blah. but this time...i was stumped. am i supposed to know what love is? who can honestly tell me they know what love is? i don't even know whether i've been in love...i don't even want to assume that any of the people i know are in love.we've seen it in movies....we've read it in books. love is supposed to be great. there are butterflies...a weightless sensation...or no sensation at all....you'd do anything for the one you love...walk a thousand miles...climb every mountain...cross any river/sea/lake/pond. it's the sun...the moon...the sky. almost every movie and every book defines love in the same way. it is better to have loved and lost then to never have loved at all. so when asked to define love in words i am speechless. not only because i don't know how to but also because i don't know whether i have ever been in love.
to me...love is just a word. something that we all use to describe an emotion. each individual has different opinions. some of us might view love as the ultimate emotion. some of us might view it as the reason for living. some of us might say it's non existent. sometimes i wonder whether we've all been pulled into the 'love' express. after thousands and thousands of years we've all somehow been programmed to believe that love is the reason for living. it's become something we search for...something we live for...something that we would give up everything for. i know many people question the idea of love and but eventually they end up as deluded as the rest of the people who've caught the 'love bug'. it's like a disease i tell you!!!! it's dangerous. it clouds judgement...it causes pain...it causes attachment....it's confusing...mind altering...and sometimes infectious.
who am i to know? maybe i just haven't fallen in love yet. maybe i've been hurt one too many times which would explain my bitterness. maybe i've just grown cynical in my old age. but here's my attempt at completing the sentence anyway.
love is a word. a four letter one. it consists of two vowels and two consonants. as to what the word represents...i am as confused as the next person. the word does exist...but i have yet to determine whether the emotion exists. and just like aliens...i won't believe it until i see it. in this case...i won't believe it until i feel it.
that's more like seven or eight sentences but who cares. i love to punctuate. and here's to punctuation....love?!?!!??
feefs, 3:35 PM
