I love you

9. 10. 2020 @ 0930ish~

If you’re going to tell me that you love me, you’re going to need to love 100% of me.

Something I learned in class today – my professor made the connection from the above and said that a lot of people say that they love music, but really, only know or appreciate maybe… 17% of music?

Music is so much more than just what you listen to everyday like pop, hip-pop, r&b, it’s also classical, jazz, rock, country, etc., etc., etc. I think he was trying to get my class to understand that as musicians, we should at least know, be aware, and appreciate other types of music, not only the one genre we major in. Because really, classical music wouldn’t be classical music without the influence of other genres, same goes with jazz, with pop, etc.

Just thought the analogy he made was really.. eye-opening (?) because I’m not someone who says I love __ very easily. With people, I avoid it almost completely and with other worldly things, I have the tendency to say I like __ or I enjoy___ or I appreciate __

I think I usually do this because I have commitment issues. I know that I’m not going to like something for eternity, so I don’t want to say that I love it because love is a heavy word. It’s a word that a lot of people (like me) put a lot of meaning to (some people don’t and that’s alright too), so I don’t take it very lightly.

I can say though, I love chocolate.

Can you love someone, but only know maybe… 46% of their life? Or maybe, can you love someone, but only like or appreciate 35% of them?

I think it’s impossible to know someone 100% and I also think it’s impossible to like someone 100%, but I do think that people can be open and learn about their loved ones through time and come to understand even the parts of people they may not… like or appreciate.

But maybe I can only say this because I’ve never actually genuinely told someone I love you yet, so I can’t really understand the whole meaning of love. I don’t know.

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Okay one last thing, my professor also mentioned something that I thought was really,, just really interesting as well.

He said that he learned from one of his professors, who is (or was?) a very well known philosopher, it went something like this (not sure), but this is how I interpreted it:

That art is something that brings passion in balance with logic and that that is what creates beauty. This becomes the reason why so many people strive for it.