Jerry Finn P. Ruivivar

Bsed 2-N

Love is Happiness

In everyone's life there are different experiences. One of them is falling in love. Many would say falling in love is one of the merriest feelings of all. Others would also say it feels like heaven when you fell in love with someone. But what if someone or other people try to hinder your fairy tale love story? Will it still be the same feeling that you will feel?

Love. Love. Love. A thing I really can relate to. But before I over power this essay with my very dramatic love story, I would like to clarify that this essay is still about my realizations and insights regarding my discussion on Life in Our Village by Matei Markwei which is an easily understood, childlike, loosely rhyming poem that expresses a universal truth about youthful love. After I read and analyzed the poem, I realized how much love influences the happiness of the youths being referred in the poem. I therefore concluded that it is through love that they become happier. Well I guess it’s normal. Everybody wants to be happy in this world. But there are only few people who are happy because of love. Just take a glimpse of our society nowadays. Some people believe that wealth provides happiness. They spend most of their time acquiring it. But wealth does not guarantee happiness. It only gives the basic amenities and materialistic comforts of life. There are also people who seek for happiness in sex, drinks (alcohol) and drugs. They try to find delight through such things. These things may help to forget their worries for a limited time but not forever. Same in the poem, we can clearly see that no matter how the elders hinder or manipulate the actions of the youths, the latter will still find way(s) to meet up and make love (in a positive aspect). The elders might be the cause of the temporary absence of happiness in the youths' life but love is strong not to surpass those challenges. It can be affirmed by one line in the poem – "but humanity is weak so boys and girls meet". It is only the "today" that the elders have in their control; the youths still hold the "forever". A forever wherein they can be together with peace.

Love should be practiced without any selfish motives. If we see other people loving and being loved by others, we should not be jealous because jealousy is one of the agents of death instead we should respect them and just be happy for them.