I also just realized that my last entry ended at a rather dark note. I'll try to keep this one light so I don't overload you with completely negative emotions. Capiche?

So, Watari decided that it is a good idea to just keep going with this (I'm almost afraid to ask how he found out that I started this.) and since I've already asked Mello for a word, and his temper is legendary…

I decided to play it safe.

I asked Linda.

And of course, in her completely distracted fashion, she looked up from her sketchbook with her blond pigtails splaying out because of the suddenness of the jerk. She took a little bit of time to think, tapping her pencil on her mouth. "Any word?" She'd said. I told her that, yes, any word works. It was rather hard not to tell her to just get on with it after the second or third minute of waiting.

"Love."

Yep, she told me to write about love. How romantic of her to suggest it.

Sure, I could've just come up with a word all by my lonesome self, but considering that my one redeeming quality is my ability to just go with the flow…aside from that, have you ever tried to pull just one word from a dictionary? It's pretty dog gone hard.

Love. Often defined as a strong feeling of affection, a strong feeling of sexual attraction (But seriously, isn't that just lust?), a term for an affectionate greeting, a great interest and pleasure in something, to like or enjoy very much, etcetera.

Love is, simply put…

Confusing.

Have you ever heard of a guy and girl who are in love that weren't confused? Nope, neither have I. I've heard of guy and guy couples being confused, a girl and girl couple, a transgender and sapiosexual couple (I like this pairing…it'd be pretty interesting, no?), a guy and girl couple, think of pretty much any couple you've ever heard of and I can personally guarantee that love confused them at some point.

Now, I can't speak from personal experience in terms of 'romantic' love, but platonic and familial? Sure. Another one of my little 'issues' that I failed to mention in the preface is my 'exhaustive' propensity to form bonds. Too fast and too many, they say.

I can't help but feel that they just need a good hug.

Not that certain unspeakables would enjoy that, but it's worth thinking about, eh?

Love is often used as synonymous with lust, attraction, affection, care…but love is also viewed as a weakness, as something that makes those who feel it weaker. In fact, I feel a quotation coming on.

"Love is a grave mental disease."

This lovely insight was given to mankind by someone who not only had a dismal view on humanity, but who also had the unfortunate luck to be old, Greek, and awful-looking in a toga.

Oh, and pretty famous as a philosopher.

His name was Aristotle.

Dave, if we are to believe Ari (Heh, 'Ari' means both 'eagle' and 'lion' in a certain Scandinavian language…) over there, then we'd also be forced to believe that the world is flat and there are large human beings with grudges that level continents watching and controlling us from above the clouds.

I'm gonna say…Nah.

I don't think that love is a mental illness. Love is something that we are…conditioned into. We love as a form of pushing our attachment into something that we can understand. Love means seeing the best in someone, seeing their point of view and understanding them. It's not something that can really be described in one sentence. It's probably one of the biggest emotions a human can feel. Rivaled only by hate and self-pity.

"Oh, Peter, I'm feeling something…something wonderful. I couldn't feel it before because I was never big enough to."

This quotation is courtesy of Tinkerbell from 'Pan' the movie. She's describing that when she was small, a pixie, she never was able to fathom the feeling of love. But, when she grew into human size, she could feel it.

Love…is an emotion that ties people together.

It is also something that the world needs more of.