When you love someone, they become beautiful to you. Telling the story of that love, sharing it publicly, makes the feeling itself stronger and more real. Love creates beauty rather than the other way around.
Did I love Chloe because she was beautiful, or was she beautiful because I loved her? This is something that has stuck with me since I read this book. I love that idea that the thing that you love becomes beautiful to you because you love it.
Yeah, it's like a confirmation.
Yes. And that the idea of beauty and love, it's actually this kind of circular motion rather than I love this thing because it's beautiful. I see the beauty in this thing because I love it.
And kind of another part of that, if we just wanna keep going with that thought, is when you start telling everybody that you're in love, you fall more in love.
Yes.
Because confessing or having a testimony does the same sort of thing, is it gets you deeper into it.
And coming back to the same idea of stories confirm how we feel, like we tell a story of falling in love and then we believe it must have been fated because we told it that way.
