Personal Written Response 2

Love, love, love. Everybody knows that word. Some said love is what make world beautified. Some said love is a whole matter which arranged by various pieces of puzzle called ‘feeling’. The other said love cannot be defined unless you feel it by yourselves.

Based on Esther’s case, I do think that Esther’s feeling to Laurence is something that people called it as ‘love’. As we know if somebody love someone, they will stay and hope the one who they love will stay too. Esther felt hurt when Laurence decided to forget her because she truly loved him as the way it is. However, some people will think that if  Esther really loved him, she should not give up and should still care about Laurence no matter it would take. Although the statement is not totally wrong, we have to realize that what we are discussing about is matter of the heart. We cannot explain why father still saves his child in the middle of fire though based on a logical thinking it is way too dangerous for him. We cannot explain why some people will do anything for someone they love though it means they have to sacrifice themselves. We cannot also explain why some people still longing for someone even though they got hurt. These irrational acts cannot be explained because feeling moves them to do thing that their heart feels “it is the right thing to do so”. Then we can conclude that Esther killed Laurence because she might think that is the right thing from what she felt. Like my favorite musician, Stevie Wonder, said, “All is fair in love.”

Although the entire irrational thing is the right one from what people feel, some irrational things are not accepted by the surrounding because all people generally lives based on moral. From the feeling’s point of view, what Esther did to Laurence is acceptable. But it is the unacceptable thing from the moral’s point of view because people learned how to live a good life from moral. In moral’s point of view, the good deed is something that will not hurt other people and the bad deed is something in contrast. Moreover, this is ambiguous decision to evaluate Esther’s case between feeling and moral. However, we do not live on this earth alone. Because of the fact that we are not alone, doing the entire thing based on our feeling is not the right one as it sounds egoistic. Therefore, I totally disagree what Esther did to Laurence morally.

Then, how love should be? It depends to people as long it does not disgrace moral. Love has many forms. A kind of love that I use as the right form likes the story of Ali bin Abu Thalib and Fathimah binti Muhammad. They loved each other, but they kept it secretly until the right time came. I do not think love should be shown directly to a person because love is already enough with the strong feeling of affection. Although there are more sweeter or bitter love that people came up with, like I said, love has many forms.