The other day, the news of Moira and Jason's separation rocked the Philippine Islands. If it happened in real life and not on social media, it could have even caused a tsunami.
All jokes aside, of course everyone has something to say about it. Including me. But I'm not going to criticize their relationship. After all, it's their business alone. I'm just going to overanalyze their joint statement on social media.
Jason released a joint statement on his facebook, acknowledging his "unfaithfulness" to Moira and announcing their mutual decision to break up. In the post, Jason said that he will continue to love and respect Moira even after this.
This is where the problem lies. I start to wonder, what is respect in the first place? One of the comments on the post say, "How you can respect a person if you were unfaithful to her in the beginning?" (non-verbatim) He/she has a point. The fact that he was "unfaithful", whatever it means, doesn't that defeat the purpose of respect? I mean, maybe unfaithfulness doesn't cancel-out love, but what about respect? Doesn't unfaithfulness cancel-out respect?
I was caught in this dilemma, "Is it ever possible to respect somebody you do not love? And is it ever possible to love somebody you do not respect?" Does it go hand in hand? Is one a requisite of the other? I think it is possible to respect somebody you do not love. But it is impossible to love somebody you do not respect.
That's all. Just thoughts.
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