Hazelnut coffee.

Took my breath away

I happened to start watching Mao’s Last Dancer because it was on TV.  I was very glad it was on but I didn’t realise how much I’d appreciate seeing it again.

Watching the ballet dancers dance is amazing. It makes me want to dance. 

I loved listening to the Chinese.  When Liz (Li’s first girlfriend) asked him if he married her to stay in America or because he loved her, he replied, “I love you” and then he said ” 我爱你”.  For some reason, when he said it in Chinese I just felt so take away.  Perhaps ‘I love you’ is thrown around too often by some people because 我爱你 seems to have more of an affect on me….   It was quite wonderful that I felt an emotional connect to the phrase in my third language.  

Empathy

”I think you could fall in love with anyone if you saw the parts of them that no one else gets to see. Like if you followed them around invisibly for a day and you saw them crying in their bed at night or singing to themselves as they make a sandwich or even just walking along the street and even if they were really weird and had no friends at school, I think after seeing them at their most vulnerable you wouldn’t be able to help falling in love with them. ”

This reminded me of the core theme that we study in philosophy - what is a human being?  My philosophy teacher said that he thought that people fall in love with each other because they feel empathy towards another person.  Reading the extract above made me remember what he said…

(Source: incenses)