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My friends say that I say too much about love. They say I sound as if I've been through many experiences about love. They all end up with the same question, "The things you say, is it based on theory or experience?" The answer is both neither and either. It means I speak from both experience and theory, and from something not of the two. It all started out as theory. All I knew about love was from books and multimedia. Then, when love became diverse for me, I learned from both theory and experience. I experienced the love of family and friends, but not of the more intimate kind of love. I continued studying love, and I was learning about it in the same way you learn chemical bonds from a chemistry textbook. I wasn't contented with this kind of learning, so I had to resort to empathy. I put myself in someone else's shoes. I tried to understand how they felt at different stages of love and relationships. Empathic learning and informational learning set the stage f...

Knowing doesn't make life any easier. If there's one thing I'm sure of, it's bound to make it more difficult to handle. As they say "Pity the living, not the dead", we should also say "Pity the wise and learned, not the ignorant nor the innocent". What may be the greatest price of knowing is the burden of responsibility. This price leads people to make decisions in their life that more often than not drastically affect their lives as well as the lives of others. It's always between doing what is best or choosing to remain ignorant, but even acting ignorant isn't really that easy, at least for the first time. The burden of responsibility isn't the only great price of knowing. The price of sacrifice for obtaining wisdom and knowledge is sometimes too great. We sacrifice more than what we think. All for the sake of trying to avoid making mistakes. Knowledge and wisdom should not be sought. They are meant to come to you in time throug...