All you need is love

Ken Sumida

The Beatles sang "All you need is love," and this song is one of my favourite songs. I completely agree with them, I mean, all I need is love. Before considering this topic, I should ponder what love is. Nothing is as difficult to defined as love. Undoubtedly, one of the biggest concerns in the history of humankind has been love.
 
Ascending to the Japanese Middle Ages, quite a few immortal tales came out and their primary themes were love. Irrespective of eras or places, love has unchangingly been seen as a significant part of human lives. Additionally, forms of love are diverse. Many people may tend to associate love with intimacy between men and women. Although intimacy is one of the forms of love, they are expected to be expanded. Some donate for a crusade against ruthless mines or, like Mother Teresa, others dedicate themselves for orphans. Obviously, their behaviours or social acts are based on love. Our modern society is intricate and our daily life is extremely busy and consequently this can pave the way for a tendency to being indifferent to relationships among us. We must, however, remember our daily life has been supported by someone's dedication anytime, anywhere. Uncountable acts of dedication are performed, even though we don't realize that.
 
I live, and currently I'm writing this article. During my life, I have been supported by others around me. In other words, up to now, I've been given a lot of mercy or love, even when I couldn't recognized that. Now I'm moving forward to my ambition, acquiring a PhD degree. As I mentioned before, my application has already been endorsed conditional on enhancement of my English proficiency. In retrospect, my life course hasn't always been exquisite. Rather, large parts of my life, have been severely nasty and mean and I've suffered from indescribable anguish especially, within a couple of years. But I could come back to NZ and actually one of my dreams is in front of my face. Lately, my friends praise me for my effort and bravery. I ask myself if I could have done everything I've achieved by myself. Of course, not. Until now, I've been supported and from now I will be. I firmly believe our society is made up of others' love. Someone is going to acrimoniously point out my opinions are illusory or hypocrisy. But I don't care!!