i am longing to write the stronger word
(Date is approximate - an old Tumblr post.)
sometimes i think to myself that i wonder if we'll ever learn a newer, deeper word for love, and i ask myself this for the purposes of writing, of course, thinking of English and not necessarily other languages like Greek which do diversify types of love and are thus able to be deeper in their individual meaning, but even if we did do so, we, you and i, wouldn't be the recipients of it, because we wouldn't have learned it. we wouldn't have initiated meaning with it, associated and mapped and searched and yearned for it, defined it in our absences and dismissed it if it didn't fit. and of course i'm going to say that the love is in the learning itself. of course it is.