One of the great debates is the difference between love and being in love. Ask 5 different people and your apt to receive 5 different answers. Ask someone if they have ever been in love and some are very quick to respond, "yes, absolutely."Others may pause and eventually say, "I don't know." Others will simply say no. Trying to decode the difference may be an exercise in futility but here's some food for thought...
Being in love is being in the movie rather than watching the movie, meaning that it is one thing to love something but when love has enveloped you, you are IN it rather than loving it. Maybe this can extend to places as well as people, since we can be in places but I don't think one can be in-love with something such as ice cream, even though arguably one could be in ice cream if they found enough of it and perhaps I should be the one to experiment with falling in love with ice cream since I eat it everyday...
I said yesterday to my roomies that being in love is hearing the person you are in love with read the dictionary to you and having that be like, the best thing ever.
I think the truly beautiful thing about trying to define love and in-love is that we are trying to define them at all since really, they are intangible, mysterious, beautiful, gifts that will be at the center of art and conversation for longer than any of us can quantitatively estimate beyond the all encompassing forever.
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