I have many the­o­ries about the world. Uni­corn The­ory is my favourite one. Its elu­sive, you can’t quite put your fin­ger on it and at the same time it encom­passes so many things. As with Uni­corns, they are myth­i­cal beasts — this the­ory is not nec­es­sar­ily grounded in real­ity but aspects of truth and alter­na­tive per­spec­tives all merged into one. Now, I’m not going to share “my” ver­sion of Uni­corn The­ory, at least not today…I can’t quite say that its fully formed, it changes all the time. I will say though that today at 1:30 I googled “uni­corn the­ory” and to my sur­prise a rather deft indi­vid­ual has summed up their own the­ory quite well. I really like his inter­pre­ta­tion (Link), some­what dif­fer­ent from my own. If I could say one thing, I just wish peo­ple would think more. I never had a class on Phi­los­o­phy in high-school and that makes me really sad. I’m thank­ful for dis­cov­er­ing more about this though as I’ve grown older. Con­tem­plat­ing the exis­tence of being is a won­der­ful thing, some­thing which can take you to many dif­fer­ent places in your mind. While you may dis­miss this as fan­ci­ful hoohah, I hap­pen to spend a great deal of time through­out the day in thought and believe that phi­los­o­phiz­ing is an impor­tant part of being human. As the def­i­n­i­tion of phi­los­o­phy states: its the study of the fun­da­men­tal nature of knowl­edge, real­ity and exis­tence. Doesn’t that sound like a won­der­ful endeavour?

If you sit in a per­fectly quiet room, turn the lights down, and play these three songs in order… I won’t be held respon­si­ble if you are moved to tears by the end. These may be the most cliché choices for clas­si­cal music ever, but I don’t care… there is a rea­son they have stood the test of time.

1. Claude Debussy – Claire de Lune

2. Beethoven – Moon­light Sonata

3. Luciano Pavorotti – Nes­sun Dorma Turan­dot (Puccini)

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Tags: Beethoven, Classical, Debussy, Pavarotti, Unicorn Theory

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