Friday, August 31, 2012

More Words to Express the Many Faces of Love

I think we need several new words to express love.  Much like a specific tribe in Polynesia that has 25 words for 'blue sea' or a tribe of Eskimo tribe that has 14 words for 'snow and ice'.  They have distinctions in the environment around them.

The Polynesia tribe has a different word for the blue sea when they know it will rain, or when a hot spell is coming, or fog.  The Eskimo tribe  has a different  word for snow that tell them if the snow is large wet flakes that rest on your eyelashes, or the small dry flakes that sting and hurt your skin when they hit you.



 People make new words when they have an interest in describing and understanding the environment around them.  English is a vibrant and living language with new words added to the dictionary every year.  However, most of these words are scientific in nature.  That is where our interest is at this time.  Keeping up with the developments in science, diseases, math, and computers.  We are discovering new diseases each year. And we name them. 

Maybe we only have one word for love as we haven't needed to understand the human hearts capacity and subtlety for relationships.  Maybe it's time to invest defining the wild and crazy emotions we fear. 

There is the love inside of friendship, partners, pets, nature, admiration, pleasure.  But these things are not just love, there is a separate quality to each of these emotions.  Why not distinguish them?  Like the Eskimo tribe and Polynesian tribe in distinguishing their environment of snow and the ocean. 


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