7/5/00

Love. What is love? What does it mean...what is it really? I am speaking from the point of view of an english speaker...one that only speaks language. Two discussions playing here: the word "love" and the act of love. Let me start with the "easier" one first. The word, love.

Love is a word never used properly. Is the english word love even expressing it correctly? I love pasta, I love chocolate, I love wind, I love Kimmy, I love music, I love U2, I love creating, I love life, I love kittens, I love chicken. All different. All clearly dileniated as I strong postive attraction to, yet each is different in it's meaning. I don't love pasta and Kimmy the same way. I don't love music and U2 the same. How do we, or I tell the difference. Language's purpose is to express, to communicate, to make clear. Yet, this English Language is befuddled and confusing. Love. Which way do you want me to play it. It's circumstantial. Take U2, the Irish rock band...alot of people "love" them. They buy the records and the t-shirts, thereby supplying the boys their beer (and what not). Some, however, love them (does my italics somehow set this apart??), they care what happens to them and how they feel; they feel sorrow for them and joy for them....they also supply their beer money also....grin. So when two people say they love U2...they love them into different ways, yet the word is the same and to the one communicated to the meaning is the same.

Am I making any sense?? Am I gripping more about the word "love" or the inadequacy of the English language. Should I then, strive to use other "love" words...desire, adore, care, and so on? Is any one out there that cares?

NEXT! The act of love...the verb. Ah there lies the mystery. And for me the confusion. I am just learning love. For the first time, exploring it...trying to understand it. To make it my truth. I may be asking too many questions...I have never been good at submitting. I see it this way...the Time is past (for me) for submission...now is my Time of action....discovery, understanding. So, I will discover it within my self and others.

Enough blathering...

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