By Jan Vicente B. Pekas
A hopeless romantic is an imaginative person. Music flows in the air when love is in sight. While the melody smoothly flows and sway along with the winds, then so do the words of a love song accompany the sweet world he imagines. The colors too are very much different from the real world, with everything so bright and colorful, one can wonder how a hopeless romantic can see so clearly. They wake up with the purpose of pursuing that perfect story they have conjured in a world more colorful and lovely than the one they reside in.
Perhaps the hopeless romantic spends too much time in an imaginative world, they have forgotten their real homes. Often, when our eyes are so focused on a scene so high up above the clouds, one so far from our grasp but one we greatly desire, we neglect to look around us. The naivete of the imaginative persons may be a bit foolish but a quality often yearned by those who have lost their power to imagine and create things beyond their realities.
Sad to say, however, that too many people fall out of love and their imaginative worlds collapsing by the wayside and failing to come into reality. People care for those that they love, so it is sad to see the state of our own nation deteriorate so greatly it rots with several diseases and its citizens forced to live in inhumane conditions. Seemingly abandoned, many have already fallen out of love, this nation left crumbling down on its own.
Despite the sun shining brighter than before, the state of our country remain gloomy and shadowed by scandals of countless forms, diseases that rot inside. It then becomes clearer the need for more colors, love songs, and imagination to change the desperate situation. The lack of love for their own country is all too clear on our leaders. When love is that driving force to push people to greater heights, they lack that motivation to change this nation for the better.
A person in love should think of their beloved in most of their days. During breakfast they think joyfully of their next encounter. At nights, they reminisce and turn and shake around gleefully of their time spent with their special someone.
To the point of obsession, one should think of their country the same way. Anticipate all that they could do and greatly regret all the missed opportunities. If one loves, then one can do great things, we need more people at the top who are in love with their country. Till death do us part, this nation needs more admirers and suitors, and should death come eventually, then in the afterlife we can converse with the same hopeless romantics of this beautiful nation and discuss how it was so worth it to love a nation greatly in need and deserving of it.
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