Love

There's a Michael Jackson song I love. The one about healing the world.

Every time I hear it, something in me softens, as if I'd been gently touched.

Later I understood why his songs could move the whole world. Because every one of us has love in our hearts. The love he sang of let everyone feel it, together. Love, it turns out, is a language we all share.

Slowly, I think I've come to understand, just a little, what love is.

Love is really a kind of wisdom. It is like water, able to hold and embrace all things. With love, it seems we can see a wider world.

This is also why I love Gordon Gu's work so much.

All of the pieces are built on the element of water. Water is the brand's philosophy, too.

It doesn't try to change nature's original form. Using the Boking material, it restores, one to one, a scene that already existed on this earth.

Like this piece, a table carved from a Taihu stone. This stone spans a thousand years. Nature took all that time to shape it into what it is. And a work of art, too, needs a long wait before it can appear before the world.

I love it because it respects the original form of things. And that, in itself, is a kind of love.

Later I thought, it's the same between people.

When we love someone, we should respect who they truly are. We should let them grow at their own pace, on their own timeline, and explore the world in their own way.

Sometimes a person's growth takes time. So loving someone also takes patience. Like waiting for a Taihu stone, like waiting for a work of art, we wait, patiently, for them to grow.

A thousand-year-old stone, a long-awaited work of art, a person slowly growing up. It turns out the most precious things can't be rushed. They all need time, and waiting.

And the willingness to wait is, itself, love.

Marie, Founder of Lyfairs