The word love: Noun vs Verb

Well its that time. Once again, the earth has revolved around the sun and 365 days later,  we are on February 14, aka valentines day. Valentines Day, or single awareness day to us single people,  it's a day set aside to celebrate love.  Now why people get so worked up over this day is beyond me and not the topic of this blog. Everybody uses the word love now a days. Back in the day, folks rarely used that word, but now it seems to me that the word love has lost some of it's magic since folks say the word so freely.  To me, love has become a thing to me instead of a action.  Some people will disagree with this. So now I raise the question; is love a noun or a verb in today's time? For those who may not get my question,  I will rephrase it.  In today's time, is love a thing or an action.

It seems that about 65% of people use the word love as a noun. Now for those who may have forgotten what a noun is, it is a person, place, thing, animal, or idea.  In the beginning stages, love start off as an idea. You make not recognize it at first when it hits you, but eventually you will figure it out. Now after a person realize they love someone, they are left with two choices; they can either tell the person how they feel or they can choose to not tell the person how they feel. Now if you don't tell the person, then you will regret it and will probably have that "what if" scenario playing in your mind. Love for that person will just remain an idea. If you do tell the person, then you have the possibility of love to change from an idea to a thing.

Now for the sake of this post, let's say that the person you love also feels the same way about you. Now you are in the thing phase of love. These days, a lot of folks are getting stuck at the "thing" phase of love. They claim to love someone,  but they don't put that idea into practice.  They don't treat their loved one right, but expect them to stay. Love is just a title for some people.  They just want it, but they don't put in the work to keep it. By treating love as a thing. Not only are you wasting both of yours time, but you are possibly hindering the person from finding real love in the future. Now if you really love someone, then eventually love will transcend from being a noun to being a verb.

Now there are some people who use love as a verb. In a nutshell,  a verb are words that depicts action.  Examples of this would be kick, pass, take, hit...well you get the picture. People who use love as a verb do so by various means. They don't cheat on their love one, they don't abuse them, they don't ignore them, and they don't act like they aren't lucky to have them. These things, among other things,  are what people should do. In my eyes, people are just not comfortable with putting love into action,  and that should not be the case. Again, I think the source of this is due to today's society, and what is socially acceptable. If you really love someone, don't say it show it.

As the day ends on this valentines day, let's remember the real reason for this "holiday." It's not about who's in a relationship or not.  It's not about if you get a give or not. This day is all about love. To everyone who is coupled with someone, show them that you love them with actions and not words. For those of us who happened to be single,  don't worry about it.  Love will find you. Just make to love yourself before you love someone. To answer the question/title of this post, love is both a noun and a verb. It all depends on how you use it. While love is both a noun and a verb, true love starts as a noun and should eventually transcend into a verb.

25 Random Things About Yours Truly

So as I was reading through my blog,  I noticed one thing. I noticed that I always give the readers my opinion/views on things about I really never gave yall any information about me. I feel the readers would like to know someone who's material they read. So on my off day, I will give yall 25 random facts about me. So here we go.

1. I wear a size 15 in shoes
2. I am a huge music junkie
3. I believe that there is life out in the deepest parts of space
4. believe it or not, I have a bachelor's degree
5. I want to travel the world
6. I want to take photography classes capture the randomness of life
7. Even though I love tattoos,  I don't have any as of yet
8. Somehow,  I truly believe that I am going to change the world
9. Sometimes I think we are dreaming while we are awake and living while we are sleeping
10. Even though I know it's fake, I still look at wrestling
11. I know that wealth and success is in my future,  I just don't the means in which I going to get it
12. College was possibly the best thing to ever happen to me. Not because of the lesson or teachers, but because of the experiences and friends I made along the way
13. I love any format of art, whether it be painting, dance, drawing,  writing, spoken word  or singing/rapping. To me, art is the purest form of expression know to man.
14. I believe in reincarnation and past life's
15. If given the chance,  I would like to have a conversation with childish gambino,  pharrell, and jhene aiko
16. Even though I haven't done it in a while,  I have mad art skills
17. I want to start my own business and organization
18. My favorite kind of movies are horror movies from the 60s to about the mid 90s
19. I believe that the zombie apocalypse will actually happen
20. I willy want to study Buddhism but not become a Buddhist.  I feel like studying Buddhism will not only open my mind more, it will help me to transcend to a higher level
21. I would consider myself as a hippie living in the digital age
22. I actually like having a conversation with different people about anything. The art of having a conversation is lost on a lot of folks these days
23. I am a big anime fan.
24. I like reading and learning about weird things
25. Last but not least, at the end of the day, I think I am starting to become the man that I am destined to be

Whew, that was harder than what I imange it to be. 

There you go. 25 random facts about me. I hope that gives you a little more insight into me. Until next time ladies and germs.

Another sad day in America

*So I thought this was posted on 2/5/2014, but it was so for the same of this just image that it was posted on the 5th*

So today was my day off. Everything was good for me today. I had nothing to complain about, well except for one thing.  As I woke up this morning,  I caught the last 30 minutes of my favorite morning radio show The Breakfast Club. As charlamagne tha god was giving out the donkey of the day, I heard something on there that really saddened/disgusted me. He said that George Zimmerman,  the man who shot and killed a 17 year old Travon Martin, would be in a celebrity boxing match vs DMX. America,  I just have one question to ask; WHAT THE HELL?????

Now there's a lot of things that really makes me mad about this situation,  but I will just touch on a few. The number factor that sickens me about this is the fact that George Zimmerman is being considered a celebrity.  Now maybe I woke up in a different dimension or something but when did being a killer make you famous? Charlemagne that God raised an excellent question doing this segment.  He said "You mean to tell me that in America in 2014 you can murder a young 17 year old young man and be considered a celebrity?" Now to be fair, I honestly don't believe no one in there right mind considers this man a celebrity. Now if he is not a celebrity,  who would  classify him as one and put him in this boxing match? Well ladies and germs, that person is no other than boxing promoter Damon Feldman. Now I don't much about Damon, but the fact that he would call this killer a celebrity says a lot about this man. It tells me that he is a heartless, emotionless man. It also tells me that money means the world to him. Now folks may say I looking way too much into this. I mean it's true that celebrity is really just a word. I think I not making enough of a deal of this. The good book says that the power of life and death are in the tongue. That means to me is whatever we call or label people is the power we give the person,  depending on how we value the world.  To me, the world celebrity means a person who was worked there as soon off in a certain field and has acquired fame for their hard work. When I think of George Zimmerman, the is the farthest thing that comes to my mind. Words like killer, lier, worthless, and pathetic are just a few words that pop up. 

Another thing that troubles me about this is that fact that Zimmerman wants to fight a grown ass man but decided to take the life of Travon Martin. Now let's forget the fact that he was following him for no good reason.  Let's also forget that even after a 911 operator told this man to stop following him, he got out of him car and ignored this can followed Travon. Let's even forget that he knew he had a gun on him the whole time.  So apparently a 17 year old can beat Zimmerman so bad he has no choice but to kill him,  but wants to box a grown man? The hell? To once again quote Charlemagne tha God, "How can someone who is willy to fight anyone claim that he was getting hid ass kick by a 17 year old so bad that he had to shoot a kill him?" Now I not the sharpest tool in the box, but this does not add up in the least bit. Travon was younger, and weight less than him. Zimmerman claimed he feared for his life, and shot young Travon in self defense.  I could go on forever on how his story doesn't add up but that's not what I am here for. Then to add more to the fire, he got to choose his opponent, and he chose DMX out of all people.  Now I not saying DMX is going to lose, but what I will say there are far better people to chose from than DMX. I want to someone to give Zimmerman the beating of his life and I, along with a lot of people, don't believe DMX  is the right person for the job in the least bit.

The next day that sadden me about this is that how it was announced. I had heard thru the cyber streets that Zimmerman was going to fighting someone,  but nothing was set in stone. Then today of all days, the fight was finalized and announced.  What was the meaning of today, February the 5? Well, today is Travon birthday.  Had he been alive, he would have been 19th years old. Having this fight announced on Travon birthday was a new level of disrespect in my eyes. Just imagine how Travon's parents must feel. The person who took your son's life is being considered a celebrity,  and he will be making money based on the act and night that took your child's life, and they decided to announce this event on your son's birthday.  The person who took your son's life is get mention and gaining buzz on the day that same child was born. Talk about a slap in the face.

At the end of the day, should this fight happen? NO. Will this fight happen? YES. You know why? Because money talks, and America has a history of making a profit on the misfortune of others. Me personally,  I don't want no one to support this madness and exploitation of a sad situation.  When it comes to money, some people just do not care how they get that almighty dollar. When you think about it, Damon and Zimmerman will be basically making money off of the death of Travon Martin. To me, that is really the saddest/most disgusting part of this whole situation. This just shows that history truly repeats inself.