LOVE
Noun space no place for love
by Dean Grey
Editor
I’m young I know
But even so
I know a thing or two
I learned from you
I really learned a lot
Really learned a lot
Love is just a flame
That burns you when it’s hot
Love hurts
Ooh
Love hurts
. -Nazareth-
Great song...for all you self
pitying fools. Great, but not
quite accurate. To break this
song down with one life rending
stroke I must say it is not love
that hurts, but feelings and love
you will soon learn is not a feel­
ing. Beyond that it’s still a good
song, especially the part about
learning from the person you
“love.” That’s where all these
practiced marriages called rela­
tionships come into play.
The first relationship usually
goes something like this:(l) you
date and get serious (2) you an­
nounce to others you’re in love
(3) she does something you
don’t like (4) you fight (5) you
split
What have you learned?-
Well, you learned that you
don’t have a date for Friday
night. What else? The next time
you’ll be more understanding
and talk things out. One more
thing...you learned that you
didn’t love her because you
don’t know what love is.
Before I embarrass you fur­
ther, why don’t you tell me
what happened to convince you
that you were, so briefly, in
love.
Every time I’m with her my
heart races, my hands sweat,
and I get this feeling somewhere
near my heart that tells me this
is it.
Oh, and how many times this
year have you gotten this
message?
27.
So I thought. If you ask me, I
would say you either have a case
of heart burn, or you’ve been
fooling with Love’s twin
brother called Lust.
Lust, unlike Love is a feeling.
It’s a stirring of sexual desires
caused by an attraction to
another person. This attraction
doesn’t even have to be on a
first look basis, as the saying
“all the girls get prettier at clos­
ing time” alludes to. There is
one more type of lust attraction
that the group “Journey”
describes adequately.
Those crazy nights
I do remember
In my youth
I do recall
Those were the best times
Most of all...
...Those summer nights are
callin’
Stoned in love
Can’t help myself, I’m failin’
Stoned in love.
This last one can be pretty
scary waking up with in the mor­
ning.
Now you know part of what
isn’t love and what is.
According to the Funk and
Wagnalls Standard Dictionary,
Love means ‘a strong, complex
emotion or feeling causing one to
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the welfare of the other; devoted
affection or attachment.”
That’s probably the most
anyone ever said in the way of
defining love in one sitting. It
also happens to be a crock of
feces.
Before I explain, I will give you
the chance to stop reading at this
point if you are going to believe
everything written in a dic­
tionary.
First, love is not, I repeat, not
a noun. It is and always has been
and action word. Why? Because
love is an effectuation of a choice
made by you, either conscious or
subconscious, and not a state of
mind or being.
It should be in the verb place as
in the statement: I love you. A
perfect example of the proper
form of a sentence contains love.
We Americans are always put­
ting verbs into noun slots and
then brainwashing everyone into
believing it to be true.
Why not do it with run. Why
don’t we say I’m in run with you
when we mean we want to jog
with a partner, or express our
feelings dealing with running.
This, however, is not an im­
portant part and can easily be
argued and made to appear con­
tradictory; the key word here is
appear. I just want to point out
the function of love is an action
whether it occupies a noun space
or a verb space.
And this brings me to my se­
cond point. Love is an action.
I’ve stated it several times
because I want you to get used to
the idea. Love is not something
you fall into. That is a major
fallacy. Love is a manifestation
of a choice made by you to care
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