I have been thinking about love a lot lately. Why, well I am not sure, but why not just go get all philosophical for a few days and get it out of my system? What exactly is love? I mean, there are different types reserved for family, friends, and significant others. Not to mention pets, you can't leave out everyones furry babies when it comes to love. So why do we just have one word to encompass all of these many types of love? What does it mean for people like me who just blurt it out to everyone and anything. Is our food loves the same as our true loves, or our great loves? In all reality it is not, but why is it that this one word is supposed to generalize our sexy lusty loves, the sensual cute perfect loves. the adoring adoration of a pet love, the chili cheesey goodness of a chili dog love, and the always there for you friend love?
Who are we to expect that the way I love you is the same way you love me? How are we supposed to define this non tangible thing when it has multiple meaning just with one person defining it. Why do we trust it when someone states that they love you? I know I automatically think its the same love that I feel for them and that is probably my problem. Maybe that's the issue, we expect love to be what we feel, when instead it is just encompassing a bunch of other emotions and we state that it is love just to make it less confusing. Why should we think about all the emotions that we keep locked away in our hearts when we have one word that has a universal understanding of affection. Maybe its our fail safe in a way from getting our hearts broken. By simply stating love and not a long list of adjectives, we make it so that we are still holding part of ourselves away from that person, safe from what they could do if they knew what our version of the word love means when its applied to them.
Maybe, just maybe we are afraid to unlock that last little piece of heart so that someone cannot just rip it out and stomp on it. Or maybe we are just too untrusting that a certain person won't hurt ourselves. Who knows. All I know is that love is dynamic, ever changing, and has multiple meanings even when applied by the same person to similar people. Maybe thats all it needs to be
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