"Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." Francis Bacon
Love is a necessary commodity that can't be bought. Loving ones family is a requirement and loving ones friends is a responsibility. What I don't understand is how freely people throw the word love around so much.
A great friend of mine had this conversation the other day regarding the word love and we are similar, in that, when we say that word to someone, we mean it. We don't just say it arbitrarily to people in our lives, we mean it within ourselves, deep down to our core.
When I tell someone that I love them, I try to emulate that feeling in my look and in the way I interact with them. I want them to truly see it, through my body language, tone of voice, and in my eyes that I mean it. That one phrase has the power to move mountains, has caused wars, founded empires, and destroyed civilizations. The cornerstone of all humanity is love. So why do people act so leisurely about the use of the word?
I have used that word with 2 guys that I've been intimate with in my life and when I said, it couldn't have been more true. I have said, "I love you" to a total of 10 friends in my life and couldn't have meant it any more. Even after those relationships ended and I've separated with some of those people, the emotion itself remains and will always be there.
So I issue this challenge - love harder, deeper, and longer than you ever dreamed and don't use the word unless you truly mean it. Tell those around you, the ones that you truly love, that you love them. Show them using yourself rather than using material representations. Let them feel your love.
A great friend of mine had this conversation the other day regarding the word love and we are similar, in that, when we say that word to someone, we mean it. We don't just say it arbitrarily to people in our lives, we mean it within ourselves, deep down to our core.
When I tell someone that I love them, I try to emulate that feeling in my look and in the way I interact with them. I want them to truly see it, through my body language, tone of voice, and in my eyes that I mean it. That one phrase has the power to move mountains, has caused wars, founded empires, and destroyed civilizations. The cornerstone of all humanity is love. So why do people act so leisurely about the use of the word?
I have used that word with 2 guys that I've been intimate with in my life and when I said, it couldn't have been more true. I have said, "I love you" to a total of 10 friends in my life and couldn't have meant it any more. Even after those relationships ended and I've separated with some of those people, the emotion itself remains and will always be there.
So I issue this challenge - love harder, deeper, and longer than you ever dreamed and don't use the word unless you truly mean it. Tell those around you, the ones that you truly love, that you love them. Show them using yourself rather than using material representations. Let them feel your love.
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