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“I love you,” says he.
“I love you, too,” says she.
“Let’s get married,” proposes he.
“Well, I’d love to, but… what’s your financial status?” she seems to be interested in their future.
“Well, I have a job...” he seems to be a little nervous. “I have two hands and something under my skull, so I think that we can manage somehow. And besides I love you!”
“Let me think about it.”
…
“My daughter is going to get married,” excited mother calls her friend.
“Wow! This is great news! Is he handsome?”
“Well, he is not Robert Redford, but he is not Frankenstein either.”
“What do his parents do?” a friend is interested in a background of a fiancé.
“They know some people in New York,” mother seems to be proud of the future in-laws connections.
“That’s good!”
Of course these kinds of conversation are simplified, but sooner or later, in this or other form, they take place. Listening to them, I realize that it is not enough to say “I love you” nowadays. It seems that before you venture to make this statement you have to have a thick wallet or good connections. The more hard cash you have the better love you can buy. The more influential people surround you the better start in life you have. Somewhere, somehow, the proper meaning of one of the most beautiful expression has been lost, has become distorted.
People look for love, people expect love and people give love. But very often people try to buy love and their greediness turns out to be a very difficult problem to cope with.
From the very beginning, at the moment when a little fellow arrives to this world, he or she is given lessons about love and how much it costs. The parents are so overjoyed with the fact of having such a treasure that they show the deepest affection, swamping the little one with everything that expresses their love. First there come the cloths. Although the baby doesn’t need such a mountain of different kind of fabrics, what the heck, she or he has it. Then there come the toys. The amount of teddy bears, building blocks, dolls etc., can easily fill up shelves of the village store. The baby is happy. So are the parents.
Busy with their lives and in quest for money they make a loving gesture. A nanny is “bought” for their child. “Mummy and Daddy have to go to work. Be good! We love you!” they try to convince their child, although he or she doesn’t understand yet what’s going on, that everything what’s possible is done to make him or her happy.
Time goes by and a stream of “love” flowing out from parents pockets becomes bigger and bigger. Furry toys are exchanged to more sophisticated equipment. A human nanny is supplanted by electronically gadgets. “Go to your room and watch TV or play with the computer,” says father, “I am busy right now!”
From then “I love you” comes from the TV screen. But it is not “I loved you” only. There are other expressions which play significant role in forming the utterance of feelings and have influence on child’s behavior.
“You know that we love you,” parents make an effort to find out why they are losing a thread of understanding with their child. “To show you how much we care, we are going to buy you a new model of Porsche for your birthday.”
The street is already his. A man in a car has already a power of buying attention, admiration and everybody’s love. But then, one day, he seems to be in love. From a little creature that was under protection he grew up into an individual worth trapping. What he didn’t know was that someone who was selling “I love you” to him at the same time was buying it.
After some time of being together they go to court to find out how much their feelings are worth. The sentence makes them angry and happy. Angry that each of them lost something and happy that there was enough left to buy a new “I love you”.
Watching what is happening to this simple and beautiful expression, I come to conclusion that it is not a bad idea to make a pretty good business of it in America. And I am seriously considering sending a personal ad to all the papers and magazines which will sound like this:
“I am poor. I didn’t inherit anything. I don’t know anybody. But I will say “I love you”.
Pictures are not necessary.”
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