To be fair, I have been ruminating a lot
on the concept of love,
but not love just in a romantic way,
which I think we usually associate and affiliate,
you know, culturally.
I think we tend to put that on the pedestal
beyond everything else.
But I think there's no harm in discussing
and talking about the concept of romantic love,
because on the other hand, you know,
I do think there's almost like an element of shame,
of desiring and wanting.
And I think the way that
this society can be sometimes,
we end up
kind of assuming that people aren't disposable.
I think acts of love are acknowledgments of one another,
affirmations of one another,
building each other up.
It's also an opportunity for people to have
each other's backs and build community together.
And from that,
that can elicit all different types of love.
You know, I think love creates love.
And,
you know,
we're all here as a product of love,
and we continue to be here day after day for love,
for the sake of love.
And I think we're more connected to it
in our everyday lives than we realize.
And I think when we're going through tough times,
we're often jaded.
And it's not because we feel misery in ourselves.
It's because we feel disconnected from love in a
situation that may feel like we're contorting ourselves
too much to appease whatever environment we're in.
I think, you know,
without trying to make things so intentionally political,
it does kind of become an environment where,
you know, economically, it's all about
the invisible hand,
the middleman.
But there's always love as a saving grace,
as an act of salvation.
And when you listen
to a song that you feel in your heart,
and you feel it literally in your bones and every
fiber of your being,
you're in the company of an individual,
people, community that makes
you feel safe and
makes you feel sure of yourself and good
in yourself and acknowledge the seen
and heard and felt.
I think that's a beautiful thing.
And I think that's something that transcends
any kind of value that's described by,
like,
the economy and culture.
And it's something that can continuously be reinvented.