Oxymorons…

Cruel Kindness… Bitter Sweet… Friendly Argument… Good Loser… Hate to Love… Mean Smile… Saying Nothing… Tough Love… True Lies… Troubled Paradise… Deafening Silence… Eyes Wide Shut… Fatal Attraction…

Oxymorons… The English language is full of oxymorons… An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms. Oxymoron is a Greek term derived from oxy (sharp) and moros (dull), which technically also make the word itself an oxymoron.

It is kind of odd to use two contradictory words to form an idea or thought. Think about “Hate to Love”… What does that mean? Two very strong words put together to form a new thought… Does that mean you Hate Love? Or does it mean you Hate being Love? Or can an emotion such as Love be so strong that you Hate Love? You Hate what Love does to you? There are so many ways to approach it, but what does it really mean?

You might ask why I am asking these questions... it all started with the idea that you “Fall in Love”. I started picking at this phrase, thinking about it, and trying to decide why “falling in love” is good when the premise of the word fall is negative.

Fall… to drop oneself to a lower position… to become lower in degree or level… to drop down wounded or dead… to leave an erect position suddenly and involuntarily.. These are just some meanings to the word fall. Lower, drop, wounded, leave; most of these words have a negative connotation. If one falls, you assume they are hurt… “I fell” in response “Are you ok?”

So if you “fall in love” is it assumed you are or will be hurt?

I am Living Single in Texas…