James Edward Young
3 min readNov 16, 2024
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WHAT LOVE IS NOT

Love is not me wanting you. Love is different than that. Love comes from within. It’s something you’re born with, and your capacity to love could be shallow or infinite. It can also be allowed to grow, or it can be stifled. Feelings may go so deep that they are often misinterpreted. The human capacity to love is Infinite. Perhaps it is more than it can be felt, Because I think true love Almost defies description. How do you describe the feeling that’s impossible to describe?It’s forever moving and changing like mercury.
There are days when I despise you. I want to be away from you. But then everything changes. Right now, I am so filled with the emotion of love. I feel so fortunate because the feeling is pure ecstasy. But there’s a flipside to this fortune. At the same time that I feel all of the Joy that love can bring,The feeling is not being directed towards any one person. I can put a blanket of love over everyone in my life. I love myself first and I love everyone in my circle. It’s a wonderful positive feeling to just touch people’s lives in meaningful ways, And truly care about their health and well-being.
Sometimes I think that I would dearly love to touch lives dear to me in more meaningful ways but I just don’t know how to do it. It’s so fills my heart with joy when the people I love show me love in return. I don’t love each person the same. I can’t do that. I love each person individually for who they are and what they mean to me. I’m going to put a couple of songs on. Don’t read too much into the title. I’m not trying to say goodbye to anybody. The last thing I want is to say goodbye especially,……………… oh, never mind. Maybe that’s why this song makes me so emotional. It makes me remember people I have lost in my life.

You don’t even have to know the words to feel the emotion. The first time I heard this, I cried and I have no idea why, I just cried.

Crying is a window to your soul. Don’t ever be afraid to cry. Don’t be ashamed of it. If you are a man, it is not a sign of how virile you are, as all of the beer guzzling football jocks would say. It’s as though everything in the world centers around chicken wings, beer and football.
A man can feel emotion just as deeply as a woman. It’s just that a woman is more faithful to her emotions than a man. She has less fear in showing her soft side.
Lower thinking men are closer to being the animal rather than the higher thinking man. There are very few emotionally demonstrative men because we are taught at a very young age that if we don’t stifle emotion, well then, were not being a very good human. We are acting like a little baby.
We are deficient in some way. We are weak. We are taught this from the cradle to stifle our genuine emotions.
That diminishes us as a human being.
That is so wrong because I can tell you that the joy of releasing every single emotion inside of your soul is absolutely beautiful. Spend each day belly laughing as hard as you can, and crying as though the end of the world was right here and right now.
For me that is a good day and if anybody wants to make fun of me for being overly emotional, I will probably agree with them and we will both have a good laugh, but I will continue being me and I will never hide it.
I am not afraid of the bogeyman hiding under the bed.
Don’t you be afraid either. Let all of your emotions out. Say what you think and feel every wonderful feeling in life. Never worry about what others’ reactions may be. 9 times out of 10 they will admire you for being honest. You only live once. Just go for it and never stifle an emotion, explore it. It is your soul speaking to you !

James Edward Young
James Edward Young

Written by James Edward Young

I believe in honest true life stories with the thrill of life, romance and strong emotion.

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