On valentine’s day (singles awareness day) with the many unpaired whining about our lack of pairedness, it brings to mind the ranking system that society tells us we ought to have. Romantic love above familial love above love of one’s friends. Except possibly for love of one’s children, that may be the trump suit of love, though it’s possible that that applies mostly to women.
Ranking these things on this basis is rather silly to me, but I definitely feel the force of this frame of mind.
Friends rock. And I appreciate y’all.
Valid point. Thanks for the reminder. 🙂
sureties…
dunno if all of us’re so brainwashed to require such orderings as better>worse…
at least for me, I’m thankful every day for the family and friends I have… but I sure as heck do *NOT* want to get all snuggly with any relatives and definitely not with most of my friends… and to take it to being able to share much more intimate things… urm… definitely not very optioned with the aforementioned two subsets of people in my life…
is it really ranking???
Why do you think?
Well, for most people, only romantic love gets you laid. 🙂
*hugs*
no matter how far, or how sparse our get togethers, stevie 🙂