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Apr. 27, 2005 Some things in life cannot be adequately defined, because its very name is misleading. I don’t mean a mutually exclusive terms like, “Jumbo Shrimp”. I’m referring to a term like Ranch Dressing. What is Ranch flavor? If you had never tasted it before and someone asked you to guess what it tasted like, how could you? How can there be a Ranch flavored anything, when a ranch is not a flavoring, but a tangible thing? Lemon, peppermints, strawberry, garlic. Those are flavors. When I think of those flavors I get a burst of a particular taste in my mouth. But when I think of the word “ranch”, I get a picture of a farmer in my head. And sometimes the word “ranch” causes me to think of another word, “raunch”, And then I get a picture in my head of a farmer carrying on in immoral fashion with a sheep. Okay, that was an exaggeration. But my point is, when I think of ranch dressing, I think of a beef- flavored condiment. Strange, huh? Now I'm going to have a beef-flavored salad dressing, which is way cool, because I already have ham and chicken in the damn thing. I pour a generous amount of Ranch dressing onto my salad, and fill my mouth with a forkful of ham, cheese, lettuce, chicken, olives, mushrooms, red onion and a creamy substance. Do I taste beef? Nope. But I do taste something resembling watered down Philadelphia Cream cheese. “True love” is a lot like ranch dressing. Hard to define, and often makes it easy for you to fool yourself with a preconceived notion. I’ve asked members of both sexes for their definition of it, and all I’ve managed to find out is that no one knows what it is, “until you find yourself in it.” In what? And does true love really conquer all? What about poverty? You know the old saying, "When poverty comes in the door, love goes out the window." Regardless of where you’re at in your relationship, you can’t make it succeed if you’re broke. Why do we assume that "true love" provides an exception? We are conditioned to think that such a Utopian state is available to all. We see this in the movies, when the star-struck woman utters the words, “We don’t need money. We can live on love.” Really? How would this work in the ral world for two people who just up and quit their jobs? Unless one of them is going to also love the man from the utility company, the landlord and the cable guy, it won’t. That would mean you were being untrue to your first lover. I guess I said that to say this: What is true love? I’d like some feedback y’all… ------------ About the author: Timothy Stelly is the 45-year old author of "Tempest In The Stone" and the upcoming, "The Malice of Cain". He resides in Pittsburg, California with his three youngest children Dante, Kimberly and Lawrence. I have a new website: stellbread0.tripod.com Email: stellbread@sbcglobal.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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