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Love

"You don't know what love is. I hate it when people say they love this and they love that... and they don't even know what it feels like"

Is the feeling of love really that hard to achieve? Sometimes I wonder if I'm incapable of feeling love. My own mother said something like that to me once. I remember clearly. It was one of the first times that I ever really took anything she said to heart. It hurt so badly.

She had been yelling at me all morning. I was lying in bed and trying to ignore her by saying "yes yes yes". Suddenly, in a flurried anger, she screamed at the top of her lungs "You don't love me! You don't know what love is! You'll never be able to love anybody. You have no feelings".

I remember crying for days after that, every time I thought of it.

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Posted by Kim @ 10:17 PM PST

4 have spoken

my initial reaction, hiko, i thought, god, what a bunch of shit, but upon reexamination, i realized that is completely true. generalizations like that tend to be tritefully wrong, but, this, it just strikes proverbially true, at least for me

Posted by Trevor [virtual dwelling] @ 10/29/2001 05:41 PM PST

If you can cry, then you can love.

Posted by hiko @ 10/29/2001 03:26 PM PST

the heck you do... why would your mom say something like that?

Posted by Al @ 10/29/2001 08:23 AM PST

my mom has said the same thing to me. at least 10 or so times. it's almost one of her standard phrases.

it hurts like hell to hear it, too. and it never hurts any less than it did the first time.

Posted by katie @ 10/29/2001 03:03 AM PST

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