Refraction

“Ah yes. Me and Sarah were discussing love. I think it would be interesting if everyone could put down what they think is love either in their blog, on on my tagboard. You don’t have to…but i would like to know what everyone thinks it is…cuz it is confusing…“

Love.

Yes.

Very confusing.

~ LOVE ~

LOVE
It’s my dream,

A beautiful dream
That no-one’s ever seen,
A beautiful deceit
That no-one’s ever noticed,
A beautiful love
That no-one will ever break.

LOVE
Though you’ll laugh,
In the entire world, the most important word.

Now, come close to me.
I’ll sing an endless song.
God, please tell me,
Redder than red, the truest love.

Now, kiss hold me.
Show me love that’s forever.
God, please tell me,
Bluer than blue, the real heart.

LOVE
Everyone says,
But no-one knows its true meaning.
Cannot be grasped alone. So, I want to see it with you.

LOVE
A wonderful person
That makes everyone turn,
A wonderful time
That everyone wants,
A wonderful romance
That everyone dreams of.

LOVE
Can never match true love.

LOVE
Though you’ll laugh,
Will never return, once lost.

LOVE
Though you’ll laugh,
Will never return, once lost.

LOVE
Though you’ll laugh,
To us, the most important word.

LOVE
Hear the whisper of the heart, hear its true voice.
Listen carefully,
Where lies true
Who to give true love.

LOVE
Though you’ll laugh,
In the entire world, the most important word.

Which is a “song” from my manga du jour, CLOVER.

I think love is actually a very simple issue which we have overanalyzed. It’s one of those knowledge by acquaintance things. It’s most certainly inarticulate. I disagree with Michael: it’s not only a primal emotion; love certainly does appeal to the higher faculties of the mind. I like to think that love (as we know it) is a purely human emotion.

Moreover, there are several kinds of love. (Trust Catherine to remember this after reading her cousin’s psychology textbooks. -_-;;) Infatuation and friendship–both are kinds of love, just expressed differently and to different degrees.

I’m not going to try to define love, since “love” carries too many different connotations: “I love you.” “I love you as a friend.” “I love your writing.”

While at core it is a simple issue, we can’t see the forest for the trees.

I seriously need a few more brain cells.

>>;; The layout looks too cluttered now…. must restart….

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Okay, so now I have a base picture, which I really like. Unfortunately I have to add Japanese lryics to that and when I do that, it clutters it up and makes it too busy ;_; The lyrics are the whole point of the layout, though!

WAIT~! Problem solved! New layout should be up in a week or so 😛

Okay, so now I have a picture and I don’t know what to do with it. A form of layout black block. Don’t bother me >>;;

I’m working on a new layout. Don’t bother me.

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Perfect for TOK, \n’est-ce pas?\

I hate Physics.

I like Math.

I like Chem, too ^^

I’m thinking that TOK is well… a bad thing.

>>;;

Comment dit-on “pinata” en franc,ais?

I would like to address what I think is a rather disturbing trend.

It’s young people who are charging for custom layouts.

Yes. I’m sorry. I just don’t think this is a good idea. It just seems a little wrong to me somehow…. I mean, every layout is different. How can you put a price on a splash image? On CSS coding?

You have to understand this: I am not bashing the professionals. No no no no no. I admire these people greatly. They HAVE to cater to different operating systems, browsers, resolutions… the list goes on. No, these people deserve every cent they get.

Kids… on the other hand. Think about it this way. If you ran a business website, you’re not going to ask a thirteen-year-old to design your website. Most kids learned probably learned HTML through a website (such as {{link http://www.lissaexplains.com/}}) or just copied others’ code and meddled with it. I’m sure the professionals have spent a lot of time (and probably money) learning how to do webdesign.

I can recognize that programs like PS and PSP cost a lot of money. But–think about it–those programs aren’t NECESSARY for webdesign. Heck, I use a program that came with my friend’s printer. Sure, I can’t use brushes and layers and things like that, but I compensate. There are other ways to make a webpage look attractive.

Last but not least–the designs some of these kids have on their own pages–they–well–are not that appealing to me. I don’t know what the point of that was. I just think that perhaps kids these days are placing too much emphasis on money. It’s certainly nice to be able to make money off something that one enjoys. But when it’s taken to this point, it just doesn’t seem realistic to me.

I don’t know why I find this disturbing. Perhaps it’s the fact that these kids think that they are equal to people who have taken courses and such to get to the point where they are today.