Let’s turn to a happier topic. Have you ever thought about the question, “Why do you love me?” It’s a question that we either have been asked or we have asked of someone else. It’s also a question, according to the experts, that we can’t answer. Wasting time the other day, I came across this site called “Random Facts” on YouTube. One of the “facts” that popped up said that we can’t explain why we love someone. That fact seemed to me to be a bunch of BS. I tried plugging the word “love” into Wikipedia. The first paragraph in Wikipedia is, “Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love of food. Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of a strong attraction and emotional attachment.” It looks like that paragraph is an example of the practice of prevarication. Oh, it also had five hyperlinks!
The more I researched the word “love,” the more confused I became. I don’t understand why the word is so difficult to define. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that my first wife died in childbirth. I remarried after a few years. It seems clear to me that I have been in love at least twice. However, I can’t explain why I fell in love. I’ll have to agree with the experts, “Why do you love me?” It is an impossible question to answer.
