Love. It's a simple but yet so powerful word. But I see people and hear people throwing the term "I love you" around to the point that I feel like it's lost most of it's meaning.
To me, I've always believed that when you tell someone you love them as in the phrase "I love you" you would basically lay your life down for them. That you care about them so much you would do anything, anything to make them happy.
But people just throw it around like it means nothing. That just bothers me.
When I finally tell a person that I love them (and this is all me nobody else) that means that I've basically put down every single wall that I've built and you know me 100%. I've told you everything that has made me who I am today. I've let you into my heart, which is an extremely hard place to get. I can't tell someone who doesn't know me, who hasn't seen me with my walls down that I love them. It's just not right.
In my mind when you reach that level with a person where you can completely be yourself, tride and true 100% you, should be the only time you tell them you love someone. Or they love you.
I guess these thoughts just steam from my experiences with love. All of which haven't been so great. I have some loves now that are amazing. Friends and such. But those are very few because I remember that I would tell someone I loved them and all I would get back was a "OK see you later!"
That hurts, a lot. So I guess I've become very guarded in those that I say I love you too. I've always felt that you shouldn't say the things you don't mean and I really believe that if you decide to tell someone you love them, mean it with your heart, soul, and mind. All of you. Not just some "Oh he's/she's nice I LOVE YOU"
Of course that's just me.
