I'm not sure I've ever had a lovelife. The word combination alone seems to be broad, but is it really
? I've always heard the term mentioned in conversation, but it seems like the love in that sense is not the same one that's heard in the phrase "I love you." That love has some power over us. The power to wear blinders without guilt. The power to take a hit. The power to build our statues or to dig our own graves.
The "love" in "lovelife" doesn't have that power. The intimacy of love doesn't have the same effect when measured over a person's life. A love that lasts 2 years could be immensely powerful, but only a pin in the map of the United States. Everyone has a few pins to stick in the map. A blonde from Colorado with an obsession for curly fries and Redd Foxx. The girl that can't play the guitar that well but looks like she was born to hold it. The diamonds that are unpolished. The jokes with no punchlines.
I have a Lustlife. I have a 3 a.m. phone call life. I have a "come check out my room" life. I have a "So you like Wilco, too? life. I have a scratches on the back life. I have a "I'll see you around" life.
That can't be a lovelife.
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I don't like the term "lovelife." It makes me think of 80's movies with a bunch of unmarried 30-somethings sitting around a glass table, mug in hand, bitching about the impossibility of it all. No one who actually has a good love life uses it.
ReplyDeleteA lustlife is fun until it isn't. Enjoy your freedom while you can, or til you can't... it's such a temporary thing.