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an interview-- #1

Question: What is Love?

Well, which one? The Greek had three words for love. (It's very sad. The English language is our way of translating the electric currents and stimulus and hormones that empower us into a way that the people we interact with can understand. As time went on and humanity evolved and grew away from our linguistic roots, we lost some of that precision of finding exactly the right word to pinpoint exactly the way we felt. And, how incredibly sad is it that we will never be able to share that exact emotion with the world. It's my duty in this life to do that... No matter what English barrier stops me. And I love that.)

So anyways, the question is invalid. The Greek's three words for love were Eros, I believe, Philia, and Agape. Eros was a passionate love, in a romantic sense, Philia was a brotherly love, and Agape was in unconditional love which referred mostly to religious context.

In my 15 years of living, I believe I have felt all three. I know, you're laughing. I know I sound ridiculous. But I also know I am the only one in here who knows exactly the way I have felt and the conclusions I have made in my time living on this Earth. And in my time living on Earth, I have fallen in love with so many things in all three ways.

The only theme I believe all of love has, the English word which encompasses the three Greek, is that it's unearthly. Love is something from another world used to prove to us that there is more beyond. That there is something sweeter than this, and we get only a taste of it to call us back home. That's what love is... Therefore share it. Throw it everywhere. Sing it in a song, write it in a book, paint it on a highway, maybe even bake it into a cake. Wherever you find love... Hold it. Hold it and double it up inside of you until you're filled to the brim and then let it stream behind you like the train of a white gown while you walk down the aisle and into the arms of your groom.

That's what love is.