hey lil chippy

the phrase of the day today is "i love you". I have been pondering this phrase for some time. i have even pondered the truth about what love is. I feel that I know what love is. However I also feel like I don't know what love is. Therefore, I'd like to offer my experience and just a fraction of my thoughts in this post. Since I can't possible pour out my thoughts in one post. So here we go. I'm rawdogging it.

I think that there is a difference between liking people very much and loving people. First off it makes a lot of sense to say that you like something [very much, not as much, not at all, too much]. However when it comes to love, saying you love something [a lot, very much, too much] doesn't seem to add as much on to the feeling of saying "I love..." as it does to the phrase "I like...". Among many things that love is, let's stick to the phrase that is "I love you".

When we say "I like...", we are saying two things. Obviously, the first thing that we are saying is we have an affinity towards the object we are describing. The second thing we are saying is that now we have found an ability to like something, we have also found the ability to dislike it as well, reject it, hate it, and furthermore. Yet above all, by saying we have liked something, we acknowledge our capability to love it as well, which we may not have known before.

Prior to knowing me, let alone loving your boyfriend, you did not know you were going to love the person that is your boyfriend. You claim to love your boyfriend and your boyfriend claims to love you. However I must say that I believe that while a couple may say they love eachother, most of the time it is that they like eachother very much and it is not true love.

I believe the distinction between love and like is simple. When one loves something, there is no place to hate it no longer. The ability to like it is unconditional. There is no requisite for that object to deserve love. It is by nature worthy of being loved, and it is worthy of receiving it from the person offering love and support. However once that so called love becomes conditional upon a future result, an ultimatum, it no longer becomes a love but that it becomes a like. For there is no reason to fear love. There is only a reason to fear something that is at the risk of being lost.

I want to see the entire world and myself strive to acquire the truest version of love and then offer it to everyone they can see. Love has nothing to do with the physical. I believe that when the physical is not abnormally involved in any relationship, the possibility of a deeper connection stands to grow. Because the physical is just that, it is a realm governed and created by boundaries. That which has no boundaries is limitless, beyond the physical. Love is not a physical thing, and thus it should not be established as such. We must dwell in the land of the infinite, where there is no end to joy, and the mystic can draw upon enough love and compassion to overflow an infinite kaleidoscope of galaxies seen and unseen.

In the comment section I want to hear your thoughts on what the phrase "I love you" means to you.