Jeff Brown

VD= Valentines Day? Venereal Disease?



Posted: Saturday, February 16, 2008

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Inner Projection

What's love got to do, got to do with it?

I've had the blues,
the reds and the pinks,
One things for sure,
Love stinks  
Love hurts, 
Love scars,
Love wounds and mares any heart,
Not tough nor strong enough to take a lot of pain,
Take a lot of pain,
Love is like a cloud, holds a lot of rain, 
Love hurts 

OK, so you can certainly get hurt by love and these lyrics show it, but what kind of love are they talking about? More importantly, since there are a greater number of love-gone-right than love-gone-wrong songs, what kind of love are they talking about?

There ain't no mountain high enough
ain't no valley low enough
ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you, babe

You'll always be a part of me
I'm part of you indefinitely
Boy, don't you know you can't escape me
Ooh darling, 'cause you'll always be my baby

It's all... It's all... It's all...
You're my sunshine after the rain
You're the cure against my fear and my pain
'Cause I'm losing my mind
When you're not around
It's all... It's all...
It's all because of you

And let's not forget "I'll love you until the mountains tumble into the seas," "My love is like a hurricane," "I'll love you longer than the sun shines; My love's deeper than the deep blue seas," ad infinitum.

But what is this "love"? And what does love have to do with it?

Regarding the love-gone-right lyrics--the majority of songs out there (unless you listen to country music)--what is this "love" being spoken to? Is it love? or is it early relationship by-the-dashboard-light love? If you look at the lyrics, there's very rarely if ever any mention of kids, trials and tribulations, in-sickness-and-health-until-death-do-we-part stuff.
 
What they should be singing about is a a grovey kinda love, love that lasts! Here's my contribution to love songs, but mine's about long-lasting love--thirty, forty, fifty years, and more--eternity?

(sing this with your best coutrified twaaaaang)

It's been twenty years and forty pounds
Along the way I've stumbled and I've fallen
Once I tired and even tried to feed you to the gators
Now the mortgage's late
Even lost my job and all my friends
But who needs 'em anyways when you are by my side?
Love is not a sprint but a mushy-kinda-marathon glide
OK, there ya go. But there's more to the picture, ain't there?

According to one wise person, it's not about getting our needs met at all, it's about looking constantly, continuously to the needs of our spouse, the kids, our "others". Of course, you may give in such a manor without the spouse reciprocating, and there's nothing you can do about that. But the wise man I know said that if we both gave in such a fashion as mentioned about, thinking about the needs of the other(s) continuously above and beyond our own needs, that the divorce rate would drop form 50% down to around almost nothin'. Well, wouldn't that be nice? 

What's love got to do with it? Well, quite a lot, Mr.and Mrs. America, quite a lot.

Love on Wayne, Love on Garth.

Peace out to you and yours.
Jeff is a Career, Life, & Mentor coach & CEO of  www.InnerProjection.com: working with students and parents using the proprietary Success, Design and Preparation system creating a plan to ensure his clients are of the 30% of college grads who don't waste 10 to 15 years or leave 100s of thousands of dollars on the table.

Prior to owning Inner Projection, Jeff worked as a computer programmer and in tech. support, but hated it enough to move from his home in Connecticut to do stand up comedy in Boston where he worked with such comics as Bill Burr, Dan Cook, and Billy Martin and wrote for people like Mz. Michigan who needed material for her ventriloquism act. He then moved to Los Angeles to do more stand up, but found being a coach & college instructor more rewarding. He's married with 3 children.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)
» left by Teresa Ortiz
 3 years 347 days ago.
187 fans.
Very clever and well done, Jeff. It's the love by the dashboard light that brings the on the VD that flowers and chocolates will not satify. Long love real love. Blessings to you and yours, Teresa
» left by 3 years 346 days ago.
Teresa, You got it! Smart and kind hearted. Good combination.
» left by Susan Thom
 3 years 346 days ago.
174 fans.
hi jeff, I like your article. so many truths. nicely done. thanks for sharing, sue
» left by 3 years 346 days ago.
Susan, Truths with humor. Sorry, it's just difficult for me to be serious ALL the time. Got to let the muse out of the bag once in a while or the screams from the stiffling wake up my wife and kids. Thanks for the kudos.
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