Let me count the ways

Sometimes I wish that it was in my nature to gush more. The only thing that bugs me more than the way that people drop the f-bomb in public is the way that people use "I love you" to mean everything but "I love you". I know too many people who have those words come quicker than Pamela Anderson at a rock star convention, without really thinking about what they are saying. I have heard "I love you" used to mean everything from "You're ignoring me", "Do what I tell you", "Goodbye", and "I told you so", to "Fuck off'. I especially love people who feel the need to say "I love you" every time they hang up the phone with a family member. I'm sure that I heard one of the women that I work with slip and say "I love you" when she hung up from ordering lunch.

I want my family to know how much that I love them, but I'm sure that it would lose meaning if I started gushing every time that I felt proud of them. Yeah, I try to say "I love you" at appropriate times, but I would prefer to show love. On the day that I die, I don't want to leave anything unsaid, but I also don't want my family to feel like they have to rush to me to say "I love you" one last time. I would prefer to show it every day.