Le Nozze di Figaro

College has really done a lot for me. This semester has been one of the craziest but I've never enjoyed school more. In Music Appreciation this week, we've been studying Mozart's opera "Le Nozze di Figaro" and it made me ask this one question: "Where has this passion for love gone?" Not necessarily the passion for a romantic love, but rather, love for other people in general?

We've become such a selfish society. It really is sad.

Can you imagine what the world would be like if everyone loved other people with a love so strong that it was all anyone could think about? A love so powerful that it superseded your love for yourself. A love that abandons one's own life for that of another. A love so deep that you spoke of it all the time. To anyone that would listen.

John 15:13 

"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."

Here it is, in all it's glory: Cherubino's Aria

I no longer know what I am or what I'm doing, 

Now I'm burning, now I'm made of ice ... 

Every woman makes me change colour, 

Every woman makes me tremble. 

At the very word love or beloved

My heart leaps and pounds, 

And to speak of it fills me 

With a longing I can't explain! 

I speak of love when I'm awake, 

I speak of it in my dreams, 

To the stream, the shade, the mountains, 

To the flowers, the grass, the fountains, 

To the echo, the air, the breezes, 

Which carry away with them 

The sound of my fond words ... 

And if I've none to hear me 

I speak of love to myself.