Just for future reference don't use words like "love" anymore. It's a very sensitive word
and it wears out quickly. Romeo barely says it, but John Hinckley filled up a whole
journal with it. To put it into your terms, it's a currency that's easily devalued. Pretty
soon you're saying it whenever you hang up the phone or whenever you leave. It turns
into an apology. Then it's an excuse. Some assholes want it to be a bulletproof vest:
don't hate me; I love you. But mostly it just means - more. More, more - give me
something more. A couple of years from now, when you're on your own completely,
if you really fall in love, if it really comes to that - and I pity you if it does - you have
to look right down into the black of her eyes, right down into the emptiness in there
and feel everything, absolutely everything she needs and you have to be willing to
drown in it. You'd have to want to be crushed, buried alive. Because that's what
real love feels like - choking. They used to bury some women in their wedding
dresses, you know. I thought it was because all those husbands were too cheap to
spring for another gown, but now it makes sense: love is your first foot in the grave.
That's why the second most abused word is "forever".
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i dont completely agree. but i like how this paragraph was written.
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I have similar sentiments, I think that's why I hardly use the word love, on people at least. I mean, I love ice cream, death cab, and my stuffed snowman, but "I love you"? nah.
disclaimer at the bottom bb. i do believe in 'i love yous'. i think there are two kinds, one where you say it for formalities, and one when you really mean it.
i think saying it doesnt wear out as much as hearing it. because when you say it you know you mean it but when you hear/read it you'd always doubt and think its just for the sake of it.
i think "love you" is a reassurance more than anything. but i feel the more important aspect of an "i love you" would be how the person saying it/receiving it feels. thats all that matters.
i feel the same, i'm not saying that i don't believe in "i love yous", it is because i believe in it and find the word 'love' so sacred that i feel it should be used sparingly, and only when you do mean it, never casually or as a formality. else it becomes devalued, as mentioned. which is true, i think it already is devalued.
(we sound so serious)
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