“Love is indeed a journey where two hearts is in the process of change and discovery. “
#Love is a Journey
BRIEF SUMMARY
It is a story about a woman named Soledad who has a husband named Pedro Buhay. They lived in hut within a farm/rural area. Even though they have an abundant harvest in their farm, Soledad had a discontentment in it.
One day, Soledad decided to mend some of the shirts of his husband which were in a locked trunk. Pedro finds the key on his pocket and he found two keys, the big and shiny key and the small and old, rusty key. Pedro took those keys from his pocket and gave the large key to Soledad. He put the small key back to his pocket and here starts all the doubts and pain from Soledad.
One hot morning, Pedro decided to take off his jacket before going to work. This jacket is where he put the small, and old rusty key. Soledad was folding clothes that time and when Pedro was gone for work, she saw the jacket. She got it and when she was about to fold it, the small key fell to the floor and it caught her attention.
Soledad discovered an old trunk which contained the clothes of Pedro’s first wife who passed a away long ago. She already knew that the small key is for this small and old trunk. Knowing that his husband was keeping this key for a long time, Soledad got to over think things, she got paranoid, she tried to not bother herself about it but she kept on thinking how it threatens to cut the bond of their relationship. With doubts and bad feeling, she ended up opening it. After work, Pedro went home and he found Soledad lying in bed with fever. He took care of his wife all night until the doctor arrived but said that Soledad is fine and she just needs a rest. Next morning when Pedro was chunking woods in the backyard, he discovered a pile of ashes and half burnt clothes in there. He had a bad feeling about this so he rushed to look for the old trunk and confirmed what Soledad did. Pedro was angry at that time but he just controls himself and just thinks that someday Soledad will say sorry to him, that he would forgive her because he loves her, and that they can reconcile after but he knew, he would always resent her for it.
REFLECTION
In this short story, I realized that love can be all or nothing. If it is all love, we can give all trust and all chances for an open and healthy communication, if it is all love, we can sacrifice everything without any condition otherwise love will be nothing if we keep on clinging to our past memories that hinder us to live truly in the present. Love is a journey, we cannot move towards our final destination if we keep on going back to the past.
I learned that in journey of love, it requires building full trust and communication with your partner. Trust and communication is the key to strengthen the bond of relationship between couples. Once a person is committed and genuinely loves his partner, he should have an open and healthy communication with his loved one so with that, full trust is given leading to reconciliation.
One thing I’ve realized is that being committed takes a lot of sacrifices. There is no perfect relationship. Every couple comes with misunderstandings or marital problems but what matters most is how they handle those kinds of situations in their committed life.
I’ve also realized that locking up yourself from the past is not good because most of the time it prevents you from moving forward. I learned that once I let go of the past, I must also let go of the feelings in that memory because it can control my present. I realized that if a person let his mind consumed by the past, he is just existing in the present but not truly living his life. Caging himself from the past is preventing himself to be better. In this, I can say that our mind is like a blackboard, we can never write new words on it unless we erase those previous words.
For the readers, this story reminds us the realities of being in a relationship. Being committed must build full trust, communication, and sacrifices out of love. That’s why we must choose a partner who will not just know how to be committed but a person that will never let go of our hands to the rough road situations of our lives.
Love is indeed a journey where two hearts is in the process of change and discovery. As they go on to their destinations, they encounter cross roads and changes in directions, detours are taken and alternative paths were given. There are many rough roads along their way and sometimes they think not to stay but love is indeed one word with four letters, easy to spell and easy to say but it is really hard to explain and understand. No matter how hard the situation is, if two hearts in the journey of love is on the same destination, together, they will conquer all the destruction.
