// <3 (love?)//

“what is love?”

it’s not just a song blasting from a boombox held over the head of doug butabi in the final scene of 1998’s a night at the roxbury. it’s not just the premise of the 2009 flick paper heart. it’s a question that plagues the thoughts and commands the dreams (both conscious and subconscious) of our society. 

but when our answer to that question— what is love? … when the source of that answer is found primarily in movies and fairy tales with formulaic plots and what people in the romance business call H.E.A. (happily ever after) endings, it’s no surprise that our society has a skewed and shallow definition of the most true, deep thing in the universe. 

i’m not about to jump into an exposition on love, just wanted to raise a question. i’m trying to ask questions more and answer unasked questions less.

so what is love?

we’re all looking for it, right?

but do we know what we’re looking for? are we looking in the right places? with an over 50% divorce rate in our country, i’d say the answer to both of these questions is most likely a “no.”  

take a minute today to think about your definition of love, and whether or not you have an idea of what love really, truly, actually is. 

after all, in the immortal words of jason derulo, “everybody’s looking for love. aint that the reason you’re at this club?”