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You can describe feelings in various ways. How feelings make you feel, how your body, heart, mind, etc. reacts to a certain situation or sensation. But how powerful would it be, yet, to describe feeling, not by words, but by action? I know writing is about words, but as we've learned, it's best to show, not tell. People can only relate so far to how someone feels by means of describing other related feelings or reactions. Action speaks for itself, though. Or so people say. And normally, those people are right.

I know this is no new concept, but it's still powerful, nonetheless. "the surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something considered as having a higher or morepressing claim." This is a great action of something, a definition I received from dictionary.com. The word being defined is "sacrifice". But couldn't it also be used as "love"? What if the "feeling" of love (which is much more a choice than anything else) was described, not as love, but as an all out representation via sacrifice? The meaning and power behind the concept now has become much more clear and can reach the hearts of many more than just those who are "in love" or can relate to the warm fuzzy feeling of "love" (infatuation). The truer sense is given, and even those who are hurt can receive hope and enjoyment from it.

To think that I would be sacrificed for. That someone would consider my life to be of more worth than their own. My happiness over their safety. It becomes more real when given in an action and demonstration. The words give more understanding and meaning, but without the action taking place or being shown, the meaning is worthless. Still, it makes more sense and has touched me in a way I never even grasped before, all because of how something was worded, and how something was described through action and demonstration rather than just a description. It becomes more than wishful thinking or hopeful foolishness. If not to anyone else, than to myself.

I got this all from a book. A book I've read and skimmed over for years. A book I've become familiar with. A book I wish to relate my own style after because of it's amazing use of description through actions, continuity, and a story that continues well after the cover is closed. My Bible, as much as people scoff and think of it as ridiculous foolishness, has given me more powerful understanding and clarity of the word "love" (among others) through action than has any other novel, movie, or depiction possible. This hit me tonight and it wont soon die.

I want to bring understanding to people. Isn't that ever writer's goal? To be understood? Or at least hope that someone would understand? I want people, along with myself, to just get life and everything we go through. However that may be. It doesn't matter if it's with each other, against the world, or against ourselves. That only goes so far with fiction, but now at least I have a more powerful tool and method to get the message out and have some meaning behind it. I'm losing my words now, since it's late, and I'm not as coherent as I was when I began. Hopefully I can master this skill soon, since I'm sure this blog entry has gotten jumbled by now. Still, the message now should remain understandable, and my goal has been clearly stated.