“One of my philosophy professors lectured wildly about love once,
yelling: “When you’re in love with someone, that person is the
lighthouse of your universe.” (I scrawled it inside Science and Poetry
in pencil—lighthouse of your universe—as if I would ever forget that
phrase.) He was a delightful caricature of his position. I could swear
he literally tore his hair out while howling at us. He went on,
“Nothing means as much without that person.”
One of the men in the class repeated, incredulous, half-laughing “so
you’re saying you can’t enjoy, like, a vacation, without someone if
you’re really in love with them?”
“Of course not.” the professor replied. “Not completely. You recognize
beauty, but beauty means less if they don’t witness it with you. Beauty
is less. You see something sublime and your first thought is that they
should be there with you. It’s not as good without them. They
illuminate. They make everything more.”
Category: Love Notes | Added by: luisag (2009-04-23)
| Author: Luis Graulau
