Zeenah: Saying "I Love You" i'snt Enough
Welcome to Febuary: The Month of Love. “I love you,” she texted, her words glaring at me on the lighted screen. She is nowhere near, yet somehow she is never far away. I have heard you. I feel you. I know you are telling me the truth. It just isn’t enough. Sometimes being loved through technology can be as painful as breaking up there. Sometimes her presence, seen only in the electrons of our cyber selves, feels hollow and empty. Sometimes, you have to pony up or let go. Sometimes the greatest challenge for a lover is walking away from a love. Distance sucks. In the vastness of our divide, we live our lives through the ether, and we die a little bit in every moment split apart. Loving from the horizon is hard, but it is also easy. Too easy. When emotions become just words on a screen, we lose contact with each other. When prayers for the afflicted are typed on a keyboard, they become billboards for apathy. When love is shown in words, and not a kiss or a tight embrace, w...