Love is a farce. It’s deceptive, and marketable. It is not the pleasant emotion everyone thinks it is. In fact, it’s stealing the glory of something far more significant; loyalty. Loyalty does all the work and love gets all the credit. I for one can’t stand it. Everyone thinks they’re looking for love but in fact they are looking for loyalty; well at least mature people are. It makes me sick how much publicity love gets when it’s a wholly feeble emotion. It can’t stand up to the tempered worth of loyalty. For starters, love is a rather vague and widely used term that varies from not only century to century, but within generation to generation. A fact easily demonstrated by love’s context sensitive characteristic. An Example being, the love I have for my mother is not the same love I have for my girlfriend. This is not the same love I have for my mistress. But it closely resembles the love I have for my dog – but not quite. But is no where near close to the love I have for my country or countrymen. However, I probably could have more love for my environment and the planet. I’ve often wonder if the love Jesus shares for everyone is similar to my love for pizza. Isn’t it just lovely to love my lover? Where else have I seen a multipurpose word like this? Oh right! F*ck! I f*cking love that lovely f*cker, who happens to be my lover that I f*ck. I don’t know about you, but a word starts to lose some meaning if it can be all the important parts of a sentence. Furthermore, love is rather useless. I’ve heard a great deal of criterion for love and all of them are an extended list or compiled list of more useful words we already have. You don’t need to love yourself; you need to be happy with yourself. Love is not synonymous with happiness; in fact more people would agree that it’s more related to agony and depression. You don’t need to be loved by others. You need social interaction and a sense of trust. This is not the same as love, because I can’t have love in others without being called a fruit or a slut. I can’t love a pass time; but I can show interest or an aptitude. I can’t love a belief, but I can feel passionately about it. See, we have good descriptive words already for things people seem to love. Love may vary well be over used simply because people don’t have a large vocabulary. This point ties in nicely with my correlation with f*ck. A word also over used by the unrefined masses. Another one of love’s short comings is its connotations and marketability. Love’s an emotionally loaded word. This means that when the word love is used or said there are numerous hidden implications. Like communism in the US. When US politicians want to villainize an idea, they call it a communist belief. This sparks negative feelings and memories of bad relations with Vietnam, Cuba, and Russia. Like communism, love is used by politicians and also the scum of the world, corporations. Being able to use love in a sales pitch is their ultimate goal. They are using love’s ambiguity as an excuse to tell us what it is or how it should be displayed. Since we have no sense of it ourselves we believe in their assertions and spend big wads of cash to show our love. By transitive property I guess this makes sense for showing your affection to your wife or husband. I worked hard to earn cash; cash bought you that trinket; that trinket is a symbol of my love. Therefore I worked hard to show you my love. It’s the thought that counts right? Wait, thought didn’t go into it. You were told it was a symbol. All of this is in contrast to that wondrous and most redeeming quality of humankind; loyalty. Loyalty isn’t confusing or ambiguous. You can be loyal to yourself and loyal to others. In fact a person who isn’t loyal to themselves is worse off than someone who doesn’t love themselves. I can be loyal to my wife, I can be loyal to boss, I can be loyal to my country. I know why I am loyal to any particular thing and I can’t be loyal to someone else who isn’t loyal to me. But loyalty can never be bad; it makes you steadfast in your beliefs and gives you the spine to defend its existence. Unlike love, a feeling you’d change and comprise your whole being for. Marriages will start with love, and end in the absence of loyalty. This is marriage, the holy union of love. But again love gets all the publicity when loyalty does all the work of keeping it together. Loyalty can’t be every word in a sentence and it isn’t over used. So let us stop loving everything and let’s be loyal to one another. Show an interest, aptitude and a concern. Be helpful, caring, and appreciative. Share good times with decent people and as always develop your vocabulary. Remember love is fickle, loyalty is a good friend.