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However beautiful the English language can be, it is incredibly inadequate for describing the dizzying experience of affection for another human being.
If that was too intense, I propose we all could use a better word for this feeling: cue afternoon traffic: you avert your eyes from the road to stare at one fifty something fedora-sporting shirtless man interpretive dancing to Enya on the corner. suddenly, a bumper zooms into your peripheral vision as if to physically announce your inattention and BAM. that moment when all your brain thinks of is the "i can't say i'm surprised, you aren't very responsible" lecture, writing a check for all your summer savings, a vision of appearing red-faced in court and explaining your ineptitude to an unforgiving audience...that sudden gasp of horror/simultaneous slam-braking/heart vs. ribcage smackdown WHAT IS THAT CALLED?! "fight or flight" is three words so it doesn't count.
If that was too intense, I propose we all could use a better word for this feeling: cue afternoon traffic: you avert your eyes from the road to stare at one fifty something fedora-sporting shirtless man interpretive dancing to Enya on the corner. suddenly, a bumper zooms into your peripheral vision as if to physically announce your inattention and BAM. that moment when all your brain thinks of is the "i can't say i'm surprised, you aren't very responsible" lecture, writing a check for all your summer savings, a vision of appearing red-faced in court and explaining your ineptitude to an unforgiving audience...that sudden gasp of horror/simultaneous slam-braking/heart vs. ribcage smackdown WHAT IS THAT CALLED?! "fight or flight" is three words so it doesn't count.