The Lovely LOVE Concoction

Essay Srijani Basu

The letters that make up the word Love have often intrigued me. Each letter has a distinctiveness that I feel gets lost in the cacophony of the word.

L, with its straight lines and no extra ounces, for instance, looks like the handiwork of someone who likes all things prim and proper.

It was perhaps the labor of some very whimsical gentleman that gave the voluptuous O.

V must have been the creative inspiration of someone meandering along life’s solemn main searching and seeking a path.

E, I believe, is the hopeless creation of someone who willfully lingered over the same shape and kept repeating it.

Love brings them together, ties them in a bond where they lend sanity to each other. Pieced together they create a new identity – the meandering and confused V finds home in “love” amongst the lost E, the buttoned up L and the curvaceous O.

Love is bond that unites the crazy, the sensible, the quiet and the raucous to create a heady concoction.