Guardian's Detachment and Grounding Stones

People use the word love for many things because it's a very complex and abstract concept. So from ones point of view it's quite natural to use it when expressing his or her admiration for a pair of shoes, or some nice weather or a great painting as it is for others to use it when expressing their affections for a primordial being, or a God of some sorts. Now the question is: is it used to much? ..It is, but is it wrong to use it in any given context? ..No. Why? Because we are all different, and different things are important to us. As far as I'm concerned, I love my daughter, and I like the color red. I hope one day I'll find the deeper meaning of love...

Perhaps it is a cultural thing.

There are not enough verbs that portray a feeling of affection in the English language: Adore, love, like, favour... whereas in other languages, such as those derived from Latin like Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French... there are many more, that "categorize" affection by intensity, level of commitment, whether it is romantic or not, or merely familiar.

Anglosaxon languages such as English and German have been coined by a somewhat different temperament of thinking, where emotions are not made so apparent or open, thus the language lacks enough expressions.

Maybe we need to generate new words

Syrianeh wrote:Maybe we need to generate new words

Haha. I can agree with you, completely... I believe it actually is a cultural thing, that we all end up using the word "love" towards everything. I really think we should cherish and respect that word, and come up with other words to use instead of it, when we want to express our attraction to objects and things that do not truly deserve the word "love"...

Dreamer wrote:

Syrianeh wrote:Maybe we need to generate new words

Haha. I can agree with you, completely... I believe it actually is a cultural thing, that we all end up using the word "love" towards everything. I really think we should cherish and respect that word, and come up with other words to use instead of it, when we want to express our attraction to objects and things that do not truly deserve the word "love"...

This is not something that we can blame just about anyone, for doing... using the word “Love” towards things that do not deserve such a strong and powerful word. I hear people use this word every day towards things like shoes, songs and the usual... however very rarely do I end up feeling anything against them for it, simply because they are not aware of this mistake... They have grown up around people who have used the word Love towards everything useless. However, when someone in the path of Asetianism uses that word over and over towards mundane things, is where I can see them misusing a word that literally describes the Aset Ka. Love, to them, is such a powerful word, such an important and special part of their lives, and when seeing people who are aware of this, go on and use that word towards the wrong things, is where I feel that they do not see deep enough.

Aghrab

I think I can relate to the guardians in this way. I can't say I love my parents. But, I don't hate them. I simply go to them for survival needs. There are alot of things they are not able to comprehend about me and so much they don't know. They often judge certin things about me because of this. I know why this is but sometimes it gets on my nerves. they try to impose things on me based on mundane limitations as I would call them. They try to get me to hang out with people and not to say that I don't want to but, I want to be around those that are worthy of being truely close to me. Which they lack the ability to find. Those few who have been able to know me truely will always be my adored secret. They will be kept from those who don't understand our connection.