February 3, 2004

• No great epiphanies within the last twenty-four hours.  My Tagalog 402 class is quite challenging thus far.  I'm always having to look into my dictionary.  It's a push that I've been needing though.  After class, I was talking to a friend, and she was talking about her guy criteria.  In other words, certain criteria that a guy has to have in order for her to date him.  I think it's a bunch of shallow bullshit, but that's just my opinion.  For example, she says he can't be under 23 or "going on 37."  :"He can be 36, but he can't be going on 37," she said.  What in Zeus' butthole is that?  If someone's 36, aren't they going on 37?  If I'm 24, aren't I going on 37 too?  Anyways, we started tossing around the word love, and how it doesn't carry the same meaning as it used to, as well as marriage.  In Tagalog, there are three words for love: gusto, mahal, and ibig.  Ibig is that deep, passionate love.  Mahal is love like the way most Americans think of it.  Gusto is like "I love to play basketball" kind of love.  At least that's how we learned it in class.  My conclusion was this.  True love does exist, and there isn't only one person that you can share true love with.  Now I don't mean I believe in polygamous relationships.  I just mean that with 6 billion people on the planet, there is more than one person that you would be compatible enough with to get married to.  That's not a requirement to get married either.  It just means that we have potential soul mates out there. 

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