Sayang dan Cinta

Yesterday I was chatting with a friend and he said this was an interesting topic to be posted in the journal, so okay... I'll write about it. I know some of you who understand the meaning of these two words must be very curious about why I wrote those words as the title.

I told him (the friend that I was chatting with) my philosophy about the difference between 'sayang' and 'cinta'. I don't know how to translate those words in English, coz I think there is only one word for them, which is Love. For me, cinta is love that occurs between a couple, either boyfriend and girlfriend, or husband and wife, while sayang is more universal. It is love between friends and family. So I like it better when people told me that they feel sayang to me, rather than cinta. Even if I have a boyfriend in the future, I prefer the word sayang from him, coz I feel it's a deeper love, and cinta is just a lust... Well, this is just my opinion, you guys can agree or disagree with me =P

We also talked about the words that are associated with those two. For example: honey, darling, my love, babe, baby are associated with cinta; while dear or dearest are associated with sayang. So, I prefer the word dear! Hehehe... Even in Indonesia, when I was talking with my friends, we often called each other 'say', a shorter form of sayang.

Okay, that's all I have for now.