Easter

(I have decided that I will probably try MIT even if I'm not smart enough, because it is my dream school, and because I will not refuse to do something just because I'm afraid of failing. Thank you all for your incredibly kind and reassuring words.)

I have been thinking about Christ, as it is Easter, and I have been thinking about this phrase from Death Cab for Cutie:

Love is watching someone die.

There's a great amount of grammatical ambiguity in that phrase. "Watching someone die" could be a noun verbal phrase (I think the term is 'gerund'), which would make it a metaphor comparing love, something abstract, to watching someone die, something concrete.

Or "is" could be a helping verb and "love" could be the subject enacting the verb "watching," which would make the phrase a personification (fancy term 'pathetic fallacy') of love.

Either way is terribly sad and reminds me of Easter. What greater love hath man than this, that he lay down his life for another?

Even if I didn't believe in religion, I would still be amazed at the love of a man who died to save humanity.