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Redamancy in Letters from a Logophile

Revised: 10/30/2021 5:47 p.m.

  • Oct. 28, 2021, 5 a.m.
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Dear redamancy,

(n.) The act of loving in return.

To love and be loved in equity is a sweet feeling that cannot be replicated in any faux peculiarity. Or rather, that is the conclusion of my research. I envy those who can experience such. No, not because I cannot be loved. (Though that is likely true as well). It is because I cannot love.

I ponder the concept often, but it seems impossible for me to understand such an affair, for I love not even my kin. Assured, I admire people: few, but surely. Yes, I enjoy some people’s presence. Again, very few, but I feel it for certain. But love? A wonder to me. Is there really a feeling beyond like?

Allegedly, love can muddle the senses and evanish all common sense. Why? What is so special about a person that you can abandon all morality and humility? When was it decided that such a word could hold the indescribable power of longanimity giving way to impulsiveness and indulgence?

Perhaps I am a sociopath. I do not care for others. Empathy and love I cannot understand, and seem extremely inconvenient. I am very curious as to why humans feel the need to ignore their own needs for a stranger’s: to befuddle every lesson they have learned in their existence: to devote their lives to a person who has the power to ruin it: to simplify their once complex beings to one purpose: love.

I cannot envision myself doing such a thing or even experiencing the want. Perhaps I do not envy the people who can, as it seems futile in life’s progression.

Even with all of my criticism, I am still curious and wonder what it would be like to love and be loved in return.

Sincerely,
Tangerine Boy


Last updated October 30, 2021


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