Rational versus emotional.
Where do we all fall on this spectrum?
This has been ringing through my mind lately after having a discussion/debate about the practicality of love, and of emotions in general. And after all this, I'm still of the mind that you can not explain love. You can explain the results of love and the reasons why it didn't work out, if it didn't. But the moment that a connection forms between two people--that is the moment that is inexplicable. No amount of logic can anatomize the connection between two people... or the way love hangs around, even after the person is gone, and especially when we know, logically, that the love should be gone.
Some call it a love hangover. I think it's more pervasive than that. And more frustrating.
Why do we love after they're gone?
And why do some words come when it's far too late?
J
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I'd be lying if I said I was completely unscathed
I might be proving you right with my silence or my retaliation
Would I be letting you win in my non-reaction...
Why do you affect me
Why do you affect me still
Why do you hinder me
Why do you hinder me still
--Alanis Morissette
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Because it was appropriate, I cued up Mary J's "What Love Is" before heading to dictionary.com to, perhaps for the first time in my life, look up the definition of love. & I discovered my new favorite definition, which was numbered as appropriately as it was defined:
13. Chiefly Tennis. a score of zero; nothing.
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