Truth

Love is an emotion so staggeringly powerful and transcendent that mere words have little hope of ever fully describing it.  Keats, Shelley, Joyce…..all the great English poets made a valiant attempt to do so with mixed results, yet their grandiloquent soliloquies fell embarrassingly short of capturing the true essence of love.  Actions are the only arbiter that hold any sway in the matter, and therefore actions are the ONLY barometer to recognize if you are harboring reservations about the depth of another’s feelings toward you.  Don’t be fooled by words, my naïve friend, because words are elusive, deceitful little creatures that are highly adept at the art of disappearing instantaneously into the firmament or, alternatively, they can and will turn on you unexpectedly with guns a’blazin’ in the blink of an eye or the fluttering of an eyelash.  Words simply cannot be trusted.  If her words say one thing and her actions say something altogether different, pitch those  dishonest words in the wastebasket and gird up for seismic disappointment because it most certainly is headed in your direction.  Concrete actions define intimate relationships; too many words pointlessly complicate them.