Love is Not Just a Verb

I think of Kendrick Lamar’s line, Love is Not Just a Verb and my mind wanders. It wanders not in profanities of love being a verb, a do if you may, but as a philosophical translation of what the phrase means. In truth, love is far from just a verb. It is a choice and a gift that sometimes may feel like or even turn into a curse but, at its core, love is not just a verb.

Love is a Whirlwind of Emotion

If you were to think of love and how it relates to emotion then you might be hit by the hurricane of emotions that is love itself. If you have been lucky or unlucky to fall in love, then you know it’s like being in a beautiful seaside mansion one day and waking up the next morning to find the sea inland, having floored most of what you think you knew and felt. Love, though sweet and tender, can be brutal and a force of nature that carries with it a great magnitude of a plethora of emotions.