I Wish I Could... | Albert Leung Lyrics 23

Cover calligraphy by Albert Leung, "May I Be Able To"

May I be able to, with what kind of steps, enter the four types of love in the human world? This book compiles essays and new poems by Albert Leung on the themes of self-love, friendship, romantic love, and universal love. It also includes his first-ever writings about his childhood growing-up place, Tai Nan West Street, and fragments of past life, reminiscing about a past that is far more than just a fleeting glimpse.

May I be able to, sing songs of happiness without any cost. This song, it's about blood-related family; it's about close friends; it's about lovers who break your heart, or even further, universal love for the world and others, and so on; love, its forms may differ, but it always starts from one point. This point, he has written about it many times, be it in lyrics or articles, always saying: to love others, you must first love yourself. If you don't even love yourself, how can you love others?

Before these four types of love, even if you feel insignificant; love begins with oneself, requiring even more unwavering courage; loving oneself is not just a slogan, until we realize that love is a spiritual practice of confronting oneself. May I be able to…

Some content in this book is excerpted from "Humanity and Worldly Affairs" and "Singing the Happiest Song Without Any Cost."