Deep Thoughts

This Will Change How You Perceive ‘I Love You’

Here’s why

Maaz Ahmad
2 min readDec 7, 2024

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Photo by Shaira Dela Peña on Unsplash

Maybe once in our lives, we tend to have those special feelings of admiration towards someone in our lives.
As sure as we are of our feelings, the more vague is the expression we use to express it:
called “I Love You.”
I didn’t recognize the vagueness until this happened.

Two days earlier, I was scrolling my Facebook as casually as someone would usually on a social media platform.
Not by any stretch of my imagination was I expecting to come across something that would change how I saw that three-word sentence.

Yet, that is what happened.
In my scrolling spree, I came across this beautiful yet deep passage, which would definitely change the way you view that sentence as well:

One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power. He can, however, promise those actions that are usually the

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Maaz Ahmad
Maaz Ahmad

Written by Maaz Ahmad

Engineer in the Morning Writer at Night. Never underestimate the power of words.

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