I Love You (Something I hav been thinking about)
I love you. Those are the words that anyone in a relationship wants to hear. It means, in that person’s eyes, the person that means the most to them feels the same way. Honestly, those words have lost meaning now. Only half the people that say it mean it. And of those that mean it, even fewer truly understand what it means to be in love. How do I know this, because I have seen it so many people in each of those categories. I guess it’s to do with our culture now. You aren’t truly an excusive couple until those words are uttered. So everyone rushes to say it, to mark their territory. Dogs do the same thing when they urinate on a tree, they are marking their territory. That what I love you means now, it’s just saying I want you all to myself. It doesn’t mean what it is supposed to anymore, which is actually what is said, I love you. I want to be with you because I care about you, and you make my life better because you are in it. That is was I was taught what love was. That you would be willing to sacrifice yourself for that person, to do anything for them. But I guess that is another flaw, everyone is so selfish now, that no one would be willing to do that anymore. No one helps someone else out. For instance, in a charity drive at my work, I have received so many no’s, it’s amazing. Nobody is willing to donate a dollar for children that are truly suffering. They never look at it from the angle, “What if that person was me?” That’s how selfish people are, they can’t give a dollar to help a child out, but they will get a dessert to stuff their already fat bodies some more. I am starting to believe that people are now incapable of loving someone other than themselves. I know that people love themselves to death, I seen friends give up good things in their lives for greed. I’m not innocent in this, I have done it myself, but I am about the only one that will admit to it. You may ask, have I been burned in love before, and the answer is simple, yes. I admit I was hurt because I put my heart out there. I know what love truly is, it can’t be defined. It is a feeling that someone is just as important in your life as you are. They have to be someone you can’t live without. I have three friends in my life that a love. Not in the “in love” way, but a member of the family way. My best guy friend, he has been around for ten years, and he is my brother. We tried everything to help one another. My ex-girlfriend is the second. It’s hard to being with someone as long as we were together and not cared about each other after. She is one of the few people that knows my secrets. She helped me in so very dark times, and I thank her for it. And my best friend, a girl that I have felt like I have known forever. I can tell her anything. We have this bond that took us eight years to start getting a grip on why we have this connection. These people are part of my family. When you truly love someone, you are willing to give up everything for them to be happy. So maybe, before you tell your new boyfriend or girlfriend, or even your current, that you love them, think, do you really?