We're trying not to "love" things these days. We noticed that culturally the word "love" is tossed around very casually--as a nation, we love shoes and movies and chocolate and toys and clothes and celebrities. But that's not love at all. And so now, we're trying really hard in our house to save the word "love" for special relationships with people. Like "I love you." Otherwise, we really like things a lot or they're our favorites. And I'm the biggest offender, using "love" in my usual exuberant, hyperbolic way. But I'm working on it.
And yep, we don't "hate" either.
I agree. I do this much to often. I love everything and you know what? Not really. You're right. I like things. I might even really like things. Funny I don't know if my kids do this? I'll have to pay more attention. But what they do do that makes me a little batty is the way they use the word "like" Ugh! It makes me nuts. We are working on how to talk about and describe things without using the word "like". You always give me food for thought.
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