In one episode of the TV Series Extraordinary Atty. Woo, the public prosecutor asked the witness with intellectual disability the question ”What is love?”
My initial reaction was “Really? You’re asking her that?”
I wasn’t surprised when Atty. Woo’s colleague immediately objected saying “What kind of question is that? It’s hard for anyone to answer such a vague and abstract question.” My thoughts, exactly.
In one scene where Atty. Woo’s boyfriend and his buddies were on a drinking spree, one of them pointed to Jun-Ho that what he feels for his girlfriend is not love but sympathy. “That is just your feeling from dating a pitiful girl you want to help.” As expected, our lead actor lost his cool and punched his friend.
That scene brought me back in time when my EX confessed that he married me not because he truly loved me but felt mere pity for me. Refreshing his memory, I told him that I had everything I wanted back then. I could do anything I want, I could go anywhere I want to go. I was living my life to the fullest. Why in God’s name, should he pity me? I wanted to be grateful for his sympathy but he just didn’t deserve it.
Atty. Woo has autism but a genius who graduated top in Law School. Still, her father couldn’t believe that someone else other than him could possibly love his precious daughter so he asked Jun-Ho why he loved Young-woo. His answer was simple. “Atty. Woo is like me.”
If the person you love is like you, then that means you and that person are one and the same. So that is why a married couple should regard themselves as ONE, so to speak. If the other person is like you, you wouldn’t do anything that will hurt that person because it means you will be hurting yourself. You will do everything that will make that person happy because happiness is what you’ve been yearning for in life.
So that, my dear readers, is love. True love that is.
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