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gon [he] lemmy.dbzer0.com gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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This emotion vexxes me deeply... I hear about it, I read about it, and truly I don't understand it. Such... Blindness? It seems like blindness, it's described as such at least. It's so weird!

More often than not, though, relationships, and I mean romantic ones, seem calculated. I don't mean this negatively at all, I mean it matter-of-factly: calculated, as in, heady, they are thought-through and not blindly jumped into, or at the very least not maintained that way. It's crazy.

So, what is love? Just an impulse? It's the push into the abyss?

Weird.

Anyway, I wore jeans, today!

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iii sopuli.xyz iii@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2026-02-18
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It can be head-over-heels. It can be a cognitive choice.

It can be a child bride being abused, indoctrinated by environment to call that love. It can be 2 old people in a retirement home finding comfort in each other. It can be 2 teenagers mimmicking what they saw on TV. It can be a religious experience between a person's outer and inner world.

Most of the time, in my observation, it's people reenacting their parent's relationship.

I think different people use the same word to mean different things. That's the confusing part.

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”

Anyway, I wore off-white thin cotton trousers, today!

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gon [he] Moderator gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-04
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It can be head-over-heels. It can be a cognitive choice. It can be a child bride being abused, indoctrinated by environment to call that love. It can be 2 old people in a retirement home finding comfort in each other. It can be 2 teenagers mimmicking what they saw on TV. It can be a religious experience between a person's outer and inner world. Most of the time, in my observation, it's people r...

I think different people use the same word to mean different things. That’s the confusing part.

I guess... I'm getting Humptied; Dumptied, even.

Most of the time, in my observation, it’s people reenacting their parent’s relationship.

Interesting! I've never noticed this, but I've never really looked, either. I wonder...

Nice trousers! :D It's hot... Thin is good.

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