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I know that I have lived. Met the bright day with hope, the afternoon with laziness, and the night longing for something I can only begin to comprehend: love. It’s a simple four letter word, but with it add four more letters, two words, and love totally changes form. Then, with this new form it brings a deeper meaning: I love you. Four letters, one word or eight letters, three words, love and I love you, both are equally mysterious and yet gratifying. When said to us as kids, I love you, we simply uttered the same phrase back but with a little something added, too, I love you too. With the blindness to the emotions we hadn’t understood what it meant to say I love you, but it is hoped that within the passage of time we will form our own definition to these emotions, love and I love you. From the start of our creation spanning to our death we all have different opportunities and outcomes to these possibilities. It is these differences in our lives that lead to different definitions of love and I love you. These definitions that we now know have stemmed from our experiences from day to day life, as well as by the examples that have helped us from our own meaning by the actions of our parents. It is by their interaction as man and wife that we have seen what it is to say I love you and the actions that follow from love. However, if the actions seen from our parents are from hate, mistrust, or are not meant, then our definition of love and I love you, that we gather from our parents will be askew and cause unnecessary pain. But, if the actions by our parents are true and from love, then we will form our own true definition of love and I love you. In both cases it is our own actions that will lead to our own personal definition of love and I love you. Everyone in our life is a teacher, but most of all our parents. While everyone has their own definition of these emotions that they consider the truth, it is our job to listen and decide whether to accept their own personal truth as our own, deny it, or modify it to meet our own personal beliefs. Once you have found your own personal definition of love and I love you, let it change as your life goes on, because if you let the definition change, it will change you. So let love be shown in your actions so the people that you know and meet know that you too are saying I love you. |
