day 19: whatever tickles your fancy

LOVE

Love has been on my mind lately. Not because I am in love so I think everyone should be too, (although sometimes I wish I could force everyone to be in love... but that's more like one of those spread the good news things then thinking I'm superior) but just the general subject of love.

A few days ago I was driving and I was pondering on a quest I embarked on during my college years. It was to find a movie that did not have love in it. It was during a particularly long dry spell when I didn't even have a crush on anyone (shocking right?) and I didn't want to deal with romance, love or anything of the sort. I couldn't find one. I thought that since my life was so love free and movies (mostly) try to be realistic that, surely, there would be one movie that didn't have a romantic plot-line, twist or happy couple in it. Couldn't do it- it seems all movies have some sort of subplot that featured love.

So I was thinking back on this quest. Why was it so hard? There is, of course, the obvious one- romantic comedies are for the ladies who wistfully want that and are emotionally touched by movies and the romance in the other movies are for the ladies to enjoy while the men enjoy the bombs. I don't buy this.

My theory: Love is a real human emotion that everyone yearns for. I don't care how deep down some people hide it everyone wants love. Maybe not to the point where they want to go out and see a romantic comedy, but at least where they appreciate the emotional response that they experience. I think that is why people do fall in love and why people are drawn to things like romantic comedies, poems, pictures, stories, dating websites, Valentine's Day etc. because the pure emotion that is love seems like a good thing, no matter what. Love is something that as humans we yearn for. I mean even the guys you think will never settle down, do.

That is something, no wonder it has been described and the world's most powerful emotion.

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