I think, a lot of times, people just want to be cool, and to be in love is not cool. But I think it's the coolest. I think love is the coolest thing that there is.
Interpretation
Love is often seen as uncool, but it is actually the most wonderful and admirable feeling.
In this quote, Mac Miller expresses the idea that while society may portray love as something that is not 'cool', he believes that true love is the ultimate form of 'coolness'. This reflects a deeper understanding that love, despite its vulnerabilities and challenges, holds immense value and should be celebrated as one of the highest experiences in life.
In practice
Use this quote in a speech about the importance of genuine relationships.
I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.
I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
I am not talking about what every one of us means by love. Little namby-pamby love is lovely. Man rails in love with woman, and woman goes to die for man. The chances are that in five minutes John kicks Jane, and Jane kicks John. This is a materialism and no love at all. If John could really love Jane, he would be perfect that moment.
I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew well enough that for her it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.
The command is to love him, not just to think about him, or do things for him. We are not to stop with a proper legal relationship - for example, to think of a man as legally lost, which he is, in the sight of a holy God - without thinking of him as a person. Saying this, we can suddenly see that much evangelism is not only sub-Christian, but subhuman - legalistic and impersonal.
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