I Loveish You?

What is love? You hear little kids saying “I love you” to mommy and daddy, you hear old married couples proclaim their love to each other. Has our society made this word to easy to say. Using the word love used to take years of courtship. Years of getting to know the person you are with. Now you hear this word thrown around so easily. Why is this? I believe that our society is most to blame for this. As our society has become more, and more promiscuous, the word love has become easier to say. It has become a necessity to say for most relationships. What I don’t understand is how the meaning of love has not changed. People will proclaim “love” and act as though they are in love without taking the time to really analyze it themselves. You see young teens proclaiming their love for each other, and then they are put in a situation where they no longer are able to analyze whether they are in love or not. One example is child birth. The couple then is no longer focused on their relationship and is now focused on raising their kid. Though this is a very extreme example, it is a fact of life. Our society has made love so accessible, that our society no longer analyzes their relationship before proclaiming “love”. I believe this will change when our society starts putting more emphasis on making a connection and taking it slow, giving a couple time to analyze their relationship. The most effective way of doing this would be to cut down’s the media’s promiscuous ideals. Then we will see real change.