mad love: just words?

I was working on a separate post and as I began to write and read the written, as I always do, and I took special notice of the meaning of what I had written. I had to stop and ask myself the question, what exactly do these words mean? My intention, of course, was to write a post about love and true to form, accompany it with a quote ::this time the quote being lyrics from a song:: However, as I do when I begin to analyze, I grabbed a dictionary to get the most accepted definition of words I would choose to use and upon doing so, I stopped that post, saved it as a draft, and began writing this one.

I stopped and thought about the dangerous nature of the love we sell to each other. Love, as I understand it, is pure and innocent, yet intentional. I do understand love as powerful and all-encompassing ::if you walk in love, everything isn't seen as if through rose-colored glasses, but you choose to proceed as if it is:: BUT some of the words we use to describe it are detrimental and painful, and I don't want that from my love, given or received, because honestly if that's what love has to offer, what is the point of hate?

punch-drunk: having cerebral concussion caused by repeated blows to the head and consequently exhibiting unsteadiness of gait, hand tremors, slow muscular movement, hesitant speech, and dulled mentality; befuddled, dazed, stupefied


Really?


Now, to be fair, I can understand how something can take you by surprise or give you pause, and that when the term punch-drunk love is used, its describing the more of the latter definition than the former; a colloquialism describing the feeling a new love or deep love can have on a person. However, that's where the understanding ends. As I said earlier, love is intentional, which means love involves and is all about choices. How exactly do you make choices in the midst of head trauma? Maybe that's the key. You can't! Maybe that's why that last relationship, platonic or romantic, didn't work/last. 


drink me like water: "can you protect me like a daughter, love me like a father, drink me like water, say i'm like the desert, just way hotter"


Sweet right?!

As I mentioned, it was the quoting of song lyrics that now has me parked me at my current location. These are the lines [so tempted to throw a Curtis Blow, "these are the breaks" in there, corny little me] ::are they still called bars if its not a rap song?:: This got me to thinking, the human body is comprised of ~60 to 80% water, yet we need to drink water to continue life because we use water to function. If that's the way I need something, i don't want it to hurt or make me stupid. A father's love is necessary. it raises you, it teaches you, chastises you, gives to you, works for you, loves you unconditionally. If this is the love you want to receive, shouldn't it also be the love you give to others?


People often talk about romantic love and platonic love in different contexts, but why should one be discounted over the other? Our words are tools by which we are to create life, when we say what we believe, we say what we receive. Therefore, love comes to us in the ways we request it, remember that.