Like the other commenter said, this isn't cheesy! It's one of these funny things, where during adolescence, stuff like this sounds really cheesy (or "cringe"),

Like the other commenter said, this isn't cheesy! It's one of these funny things, where during adolescence, stuff like this sounds really cheesy (or "cringe"), but then gaining wisdom through life is largely a process of slowly figuring out: oh, this isn't cheesy at all; serious people have been thinking and talking and writing about this topic for millenia, because this stuff really is core to the human experience.