Reading response #6

This week I decided to continue reading "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera. I don't know how many pages I read because I read this book off and on since it hurts my brain to think about it for too long. There's a couple of ideas Kundera presents that I would like to elaborate on right now. One is the idea that it is easy for someone to take a light thought or action and turn it into a heavy one. He exemplifies this with Beethoven's 19th symphony "Es Muss Sein!" (it must be!). The whole idea behind the symphony is that one side goes "must it be?" and the other goes, "it must be!". Beethoven heard these words spoken by a friend who had to pay rent the next day and he said, "must it be?" and his landlord responded, "it must be!". This was just an everyday conversation that Beethoven took and made heavy by turning it into this huge question of life.. So big he decided to create an entire symphony based on these words. I think that people do this in everyday life as well. If somebody forgets to do something another person asks the other person gets offended and takes the action as something a lot heavier than what it was. The person thinks that because they forgot they don't have any respect for what that person says, and don't care about their needs. They take a simple action and read too much into it and give it all this meaning that it doesn't have. Maybe the person that forgot just didn't write it down because they didnt have a pen handy when they were being asked. But people don't think like that, and automatically give everything so much meaning that it doesn't possess.