“I gave you love, but you’re afraid of it”

With Valentine’s Day quickly approaching I wondered whether it would be too cliche to write a bit about the holiday or love or something associated with the card ’n candy madness. I have mixed feelings about the holiday we Americans worry about more than we should, but when it comes down to it, I am indifferent. I have always thought of it as rather cheesy, but it can be fun. It also can make thousands of people feel sorry for themselves for no real reason. Henceforth, I am indifferent.

Looking deeper (past the surface here kids), I have to think about the concept of love - the thing supposedly being celebrated February 14  of each year.  Are human beings actually capable of real love? True Love? Does it exist? This is something that is almost foreign to me therefore difficult to pinpoint. Before jumping to the conclusion that I have become “emo” or ungrateful, hear me out.

My examples of love almost always seem conditional. Act this way. Look that way. Help me out. Talk this way. Don’t do that. The list goes on and on forever. Do you have a friend that loved you before you did or didn’t do anything? I highly doubt it. It’s all purely conditional. I honestly do not think humans can show any other type of love. Can they?

Maybe I am just saying this because I’ve been told that I am nasty, rotten, and worthless one too many times, from which the same lips utter the phrase “I love you” mere minutes before. Surely, that can’t be love.

So what is?

Lyrics from Heart is in Your Hands by Cameron Jaymes.