This entry reminds me of the lesson I learned in OAC english class from reading The Outsider by Albert Camus…we say the word ‘love’ so often that it really does lose it’s sincerity. How can you “love” a pair of shoe as much as you love your mother? _{I guess for some people that might be true now that I think about it!}

You’re right, ‘love’ should be used with discretion…and while I’m not saying to use the word less _{as it’s a lovely word} it’s important to make note of what it is that we really “love”...because somehow, hearing, “I honestly, really do…no, but the real kind…love you” is somehow less convincing than the original 3 words.

I dunno the love though, I have a friend from japan and when she moved here we would eat some kind of food and she would sigh and smile and so matter-of-factly: awwww (sighingly) I love it.

She got me saying it too. Acknowledging the things you love in life, humor, music, food, dancing, poetry etc. I think is really a wondergul thing to use the word love for. Try it today, you might enjoy it, Just sigh, and say in a matter of factlyish voice. That joke is so funny, sigh, I love it.

There all different types of saddnesses or angers or ‘emotional ills’ in this world but our happiness comes from one source. It’s just like how we have one type of health but there are all different types of illnesses.

Futhermore, I wanted to send some congrats your way with the whole careful with words thing, people don’t think about what is coming out of their mouths, even stuff like:

I’m just not good at that, that’s just not me I am bad at doing etc … I’m just not talented.. I’m just not. I’m not, I’m not, I’m not!!!!

Ahhh!

The more we say things like this to ourselves the more we cage ourselves in, label ourselves and our abilities making it more difficult to grow and learn new skills or see the world beyond some kind of lense we create through our use of ‘limitation based’ vocabulary.

Peace!!!

jooyoung