After talking to a special someone however, they really gave me insight into why the word 'love' may even crop up, even if its not used in the ultimate way that couples aim for. The word love may be used simply because other words just aren't enough. You could love someone for the things they do, the things they say and how what they do and say affect you. It could be that you're going through a hard time and there's that one individual that is always there for you, no matter what, lending a shoulder for you to lean on and making sure you get back on your feet. To me, that's something I could love someone for.
At the end of the day, putting both of this post and the previous post together, using the L word is still of precious value and as long as you're keeping it real with your significant other, then alls good :)
Short and simple.
Its an interesting premise. Love as a reassuring quality, present and everlasting... secure... I like it.
ReplyDeleteBut lets see an alternative perspective...
What if love was freedom... like a flower in the field... untouched, untainted... sacred. You would not take it from its place in the field and place it in a flower pot; constrained, bottled up and deprived of its purest expression. To love something, or someone is to leave them in their element and observe from a distance.
I guess we both arrive at the same place in our points of view. Were you see it as something you can receive, I see it as something to be given. The freedom to be one's true self.
Perhaps authenticity is the purest form of love.