I can’t help but notice the loose usage of the word love. Where have the times gone when ‘I love you’ was a turning point. Or, more to the point when it actually had meaning and depth.
Scrolling down the ‘Facebook wall’ I’m bombarded by children not even old enough to be members, publishing statuses along the lines of ‘I love you so much Ben <3‘. The likes of 13-year-olds expressing feelings they can’t even think to imagine how they might feel. And then there’s the odd soppy one my age who can’t control their emotions and feel the need to over-express. Like we give a shit.
However, when being so cynical, it’s hard to find the time when it’s acceptable to tell someone you love them. We’re always telling our friends and family how much we love them but surely this is different? One’s ever-lasting and unconditional, and the other can be broken with a slip of the tongue. After all, 2010 is the year of the love rat. If it can happen with celebs, what’s to stop it happening to any one of us, anytime?
Will something move in place of the ‘I love you’? If so, I can’t even imagine to think what. Thinking about it like this, surely it wouldn’t be too wrong to say a relationship is no longer as official. But no two people are the same. It wouldn’t be right to tell somebody they aren’t in love, accusing them of expressing a feeling which we think is an impossibility. Because after all, how do we know? We can’t take every besotted 14-year-old on to Jeremy Kyle to take the lie-detector test every time we get pissed off at the sight of what we sarcastically call ‘young love’. So we just keep on ‘LOVING’.
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