“LOVE HAS ITS OWN LANGUAGE—UNDERSTOOD ONLY BY THOSE WHO EXPERIENCE IT”

Written by— Jezreel Madsa

Love and language are some of the things that humans cannot live without. Deprived of these
two would ultimately make one live no more, than a person who post on facebook without
having an account. Essentially, these two are integral to the life of every person. They are, so to
speak, the ingredients thereby constitute the truest sense of being a human individual.

Apparently, there is not a single day much less an hour where we barely speak, let alone love. In
every endeavor we make, or task we accomplish—we always blend the whole thing with love
and language. Inasmuch as it is language that enables us to communicate our ideas and it is love
that empowers us to do harder things with commensurate ease.

Having said those things above, haven’t you asked yourself with one question: Does love in of
itself have its own language? That is to say, does love have its own distinct language different
than the language we use to speak and communicate with corresponding linguistic and phonetic
symbols?

My grandpa who already had passed away many years ago used to remind me that love is a verb
and it means getting the broom and sweep the dust out of the house; or get a wet scrap of cloth
and mop the floor from upstairs all the way down; or prepare food on the table for the people you
love. I mulled over what he said, yet I was a bit cynical that time. I was pretty sure that it was
just an obvious stunt pulled by my grandpa to keep me do the work. But when I began to
deliberately analyze the whole thing, I somehow discovered that he was right. Truly, love is a
dynamic kind of thing or something that is concretely visible, not an abstract set of words easily
spoken out by everyone.

In a ‘love-relationship’ context, we often hear bunches of men including myself—who woo a girl
by means of poetry—using well-embellished rhetoric to win the heart of the girl. It is believe
notwithstanding by many people in general that if you cannot open your mouth and speak that
‘language of love’ [as it were] you would have zero chance to prove you truly love the girl.

In most cases, however, words are nothing but words—a mere vehicle used by people to get
what they like and and not what they truly want. But is love better expressed in words? I for one
believe that it can be exemplified a way better through actions. The true language of love
constitutes is not a set of words we use in speech, but is a sacrificial kind of passion one
delightfully does without asking something in return.