capturing love

have you ever come into contact with a piece of music that changed your life? a song that fully, truly sums up the way you feel about something. i was amazed to find that a single piece of music could perfectly portray love, illustrate the way love feels, the way it acts, the way it speaks and moves. i didn't believe the something as abstract as love could be summed up, could be painted, captured. but it exists - Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11. i highly recommend finding this piece if you've ever been in love, or if you want to know what it's like. it's truly amazing.

if chopin could capture this ephemeral idea on a piano, why is it so difficult to trap it in life? he had his ear, his instrument, the notes, the vision, the emotion. if we use our instrument, whatever it may be, if we have the ear, the ability to know it when it's right, if we have the vision of what it could and should be, the emotion in our memory or imagination, why is it that we can't seem to hold onto this fleeting bliss that is love?