“If you don’t know it, you won’t love it”

to understand what the environment means to me

There is a phrase in Indonesian: “Tak kenal, maka tak sayang”. If I translate it to English, more or less it means: “If you don’t know it, you won’t love it”. This phrase has been said to me, when my mother found out that I was fighting (verbally and emotionally — not physically) with friends at school. She used to calm me down by saying, “When you become angry, you don’t try to get to know her better. You have to know her more, so that you could become a best friend.”