You're right, love is not a word to toss about, except maybe in cases like, '
I love cajun cooking' or '
Don't you just love watching Simpsons reruns? I
love the way they use the whole news with
Kent Brockman thing as a vehicle for satire.'
When you're talking about people
who aren't family members, the word somehow becomes much more heavy and we really do have to be careful with it.
You either love someone or you don't. But assuming you
do, there can be different ways of doing it. As an intense thing as love is, it is also not an easily defined and contained word. Isn't it possible to feel genuine love for, say, someone you haven't seen in nine years,
an ex-boyfriend you still hold dear,
a close intimate friend and your
one true soulmate and still feel entirely different towards each one of them?
Even when your heart wholeheartedly belongs to one, somehow its possible to dedicate a piece of it to other dear people, and still not love
any of them with 'half a heart'. It kind of defies physics when you think about it. Its kind of crazy how the heart can work that way.