(The below story is the
simple English translation of the original story written in Tagalog language)
Each one
of us wants companion – be it a friend, partner or spouse, everyone doesn’t
want to be alone. It can be in romance,
friendship, struggle in life, ambition, livelihood, and human relationships. Almost all of us if not everyone, need someone
to be with because no one can be independent.
Life is
better when you have someone to share your happiness, whether is it great,
ordinary or just small things. In times
of your suffering, loneliness, frustration and failures – that someone will be
with you crying, hurting and troubling.
In times of good things – someone is laughing, enjoying and celebrating with
you. Everyone needs companion, someone
who will be beside you when you’re alone, behind your back in everything you
do, and ahead to defend you. You need
friend to be happy, friend who will tell your faults, help you, reminds what your
needs and praise your successes.
You need
partner in life who will love you till last, boost you up, fill your lack and
weaknesses and revolve your life. Spouse
who will response in your physical and emotional need, even spiritually and
morally. You need partner who will make
you totally complete until you both age.
Man
needs company because not at all time he can do all things alone. He needs companion because men live to love
that makes him as human. To have
children whom he will pull out of his strength and whom his world will move
around.
In general, people believe that success
can be measured through having your
own family which makes the essence of your existence and
reason why you were created human. But
how come there are people who cannot find partner in life? There are those whose searching of the right,
true, worthy at deserved partner seems so difficult and elusive to find –
whether in friendship or relation.
There are some who’d been good to his
family, friends, and country but the
return of good fate seems too long before
achieved. There may be something wrong
with him as a person like he may
be slow learner, difficult to understand, old fashioned,
distant and aloof to social interaction.
But isn’t it just fair for his decency to receive
the return of love that he gives? In his desire
not to lose friends and companion, he has
to take care them through giving, providing constant favour and pampering his luxury.
He does
everything to protect the marriage, relationship, friendship, or
partnership. He sacrifices, sometimes
extending his kindness in taking the responsibilities even to the next kin of
his partner. Because he loves companion,
he doesn’t want to give chance and reason that might cause his partner to lose the
affection towards him. He accepts to
understand these as much as he can, until his effort reaches to sky just to
protect his love for the person. And
yes, including in his daily prayers, that’s how great his love.
Some people
need companion through badly means which we can’t blame because of their
sincere kindness, love and utmost needs.
Understanding is the least we can give next to compassion because needing
company is as much as we need to live.
Alex V. Villamayor
January 18, 2011
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