Call her up, tell her how love is not a question.

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(idea) by Scout Finch (6.7 d) (print) ? (I like it!) 2 C!s Tue Oct 11 2005 at 14:50:52

Call her up; tell her how love is not a question. It is an answer and it deserves to be repeated when ever the question is asked.

What is the question? Everything. Everything from, "How do I look?" to "Will you turn off the oven?" "What's on television?" "Where are you going?" "Do you love me?" "Can you feed the dog?" "Who's on first?"

Love. Love. Love. Love. Always the answer. Different forms and different faces to respond to but always the same.

You have already been told to tell people they are beautiful and then you will change the world. This is true.

What you also need to know is that if you tell people that you love them, you will make the world go away.

It keeps happening to me. Listen.

Six years ago I thought my world would end. I lost everything I thought I had and didn't know what to do with myself.

I met a boy in a bar and I got drunk enough to ask him, "What will I do with my life? Where will I go? What is left?"

He said, "Love."

Oh, there were many more words that went along with that but that is the only part I got. The jukebox and the hoots and hollers drowned out the rest of the conversation. The pool balls broke and cracked the middle of his sentences. I didn't hear them. So it was love, love, love, repeating through my head breaking the monotonous hum of sliding glasses and country music.

He was right. Love. And it all worked out.

Before that there was a teacher who told me I had talent.

I said, "Now what makes you think that?"

She said, "You love what you are doing. And that is talent enough."

Love, love, love.

It all comes back to me. To you. To him and to her. You tell people you love them and it makes them stop and think. It makes them fall in love with the world all over again.

I know this boy, Devon, age 13. Prime in puberty and emotions and tempers. Angry and he doesn't know why.

But when the girl from algebra class told him that she loved him, he wasn't angry anymore. He knows why.

He took a test in math and the bonus question was, "What do you call it when you have zero points in tennis?"

Love.

printable version
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I love her backwards	love letter	I cannot find the right words to tell her this	Dear beautiful like an orange blossom: What is the nice surprise?
Things you give people that they keep	Tell me of good things that are happening in life	Remember I'm awful, in love with you	all of these people are me
I hope there is someone in your life to tell you how beautiful you are	Tell people they're beautiful and you will change the world	lunchtime on the second day of creation	Love letters to those along the way
I can't tell the girl I love that I love her	Joy here we are again. Hello Albert	It's only love: at the end of the day, there are still thunderstorms and sunsets	How do you know a girl wants to smooch?
It's always a good idea to tell people you love them if you do	Every morning when I wake up, I feel guilty for all the things I have ever been	The pool balls broke and cracked the middle of his sentences	Love creates. Hatred only destroys.
Asparagus ice cream	I hope someday you will realize how amazing you are	We Should Keep This Secret	heart sounds

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