I'm thinking I’ve joined the trend. I find myself closing text messages typing a brisk
– LY – or simply inserting a tiny heart shaped symbol. Lately, there's no “I love you” from me, not even a
sweet “Love you.”
Am I helping ‘love’
disappear?
As a kid, I was totally
familiar with ‘love, the verb’ due to avidly reading fiction and non-fiction.
Love just wasn't part of 'homespeak'. I didn’t hear my parents say, “I love
you”; not to each other; not to me nor my brothers and sisters. Today, writing and reading those words, I’m surprisingly sad because I never longed to hear
the sentiment. Their actions communicated love. After all, the eight of us, each one constantly had mother and daddy's loving attention. If you’ve read my award-winning
memoir, Black Star Girl, you know I
KNOW they dearly loved each other and their family.
I pray my own parenting conveyed and easily spoke “I love
you” to my girl and boy as I raised them in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s. My memory is that I did!
I know my four grandchildren hear the words and are assured of my love with every contact we are blessed to share.
“Heart” is growing in
popularity, a hip representative of ‘love’, that verb, which could
disappear from our vocabulary
It shouldn’t happen.
“I love you.”
Pass it on.
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