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THE LAST DEGREE by Jemuel Johnson

The word love is not a sensitive term. It is used often and sometimes recklessly. We love cars, clothes, shoes, and perfume. We get a certain feeling when those things are around or when we possess those things. It is surely a positive feeling established, a time of smiles, giggles, and even tears of joy. No person would not want to experience such pleasure. For all of us, one imagines, are looking for happiness.

Webster's dictionary defines love in several ways. One way is "A strong affection for or attachment or devotion to a person or persons." Another way is "A strong liking for or interest in something." Also, "A strong, usually passionate, affection for a person of the opposite sex." These quotes come from a renown book without a doubt. They are not bad. The term "devotion" was worth crossing. However, they are scratching the surface, they are obvious, and anybody could deliver those observations. What is not obvious is more interesting and worth writing about. Perhaps a love that flies over mood, felicity, and butterflies. No pun intended.

Words like "discipline," "refrain," and "self-sacrifice" are not popular words, and are dramatically less popular behavior. It comes unnaturally. There's ultimately a struggle, a confrontation, a dire disharmony with self-preservation and happiness. Discipline cries out, "Do not do what is commonly done." It is quite a feat to pursue such a task and extremely noble. Furthermore, countless people never consider the human era we are living in and how we are heavily influenced by it. That era is the age of Reason. Everything that is deemed right or proper is the big picture, objective, rational, and reasonable. These are mostly good, but perhaps not all-applying. Maybe everything shouldn't be a product of the age.

There are varying degrees one loves their partner, husband and wife or boyfriend and girlfriend. Some stay in a relationship as long as they don't get hurt, some stay until they get hurt some, some leave after they get hurt too much. All of these are reasonable. But there is a group not yet mentioned. An uncommon group. The man that will lay down his life for his woman and her him. They share each others heavenly highs and depressing lows. They stand by each other. They stay till they die. In a lot of cases it probably sounds unreasonable. At any rate, this is overwhelming. This is profound. This is not obvious. This is mad, irrational love. This is the last degree.

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