"Love" is a word that is sooo overworked in American culture..

"Love" is used to refer to strong positive feelings we have for family, friends, significant others, our self & humanity in general [loving our neighbor as ourself].

We also are called upon [and many of us do]love God, and books, and music, and food, and desserts, and sports teams, and good sex, and you name it..

I remember one poet saying that we should "love all the things that make us strong" . I interprete this to mean that we should appreciate [and learn] from difficult experiences..

While I wouldn't use the word "love" there, I think the poet {Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones}has a point...

Maybe we need more precise words to describe these emotions...

I'd love that.