Many people have strong feelings about how we shouldn't throw the word "love" around when we're talking about things that we just like. Music, movies, books, anything can fall under the "love-but-actually-like" category, and people often think that saying you love everything cheapens the words when you actually love something. But I don't think that at all.

I love movies, even if I've only seen them once. I love songs by artists whose names I forget unless I have the song saved somewhere. I've always enthusiastically stated how I feel about things, and to me, "love" isn't the same as love.

I sometimes worry that by "loving" Marvel but not having read the comics, I cheapen my love for my family and friends. I think that's something that the world has taught me to feel, and that loving a material thing is the same type of love as you feel for a person.

I don't agree with that. Love is just one word in the English language, but it has so many different meanings that span across the different levels of love. In other languages, there are distinctive ways to say you love something or someone. It's amazing that such an expressive language like English doesn't have more than one word for love.

Because I say it a lot, I often have to find other ways to show people that I'm sincere about my love for them. Sometimes, I just need to change how I say it. Other times, it's about my actions, as well as my words.

But then, why do we have to distinguish between love and love and love? Why can't we just happily express our feelings in whatever way we think we need to? If I love a movie, why can't I also use that same love when I'm talking about a person? Love is such an important emotion, that if we try to police it, then we're not being fair to each other or to ourselves.