This I believe

​I am not a writer. English with its many rules, and itsridiculous ability to break them, is, frankly, a mystery to me.You know what I do like? Math. Math has rules, but you don’t get to break them. Math makes sense. There is no “I believe this,” “well, I believe that,” and both people being right. 1+1=2.1+1≠3, or 4, or 5. It’s 2. One belief exists which everyone holds: belief in the answer. This is why I do not hold many beliefs, and I won’t use the word again in my essay. However, the world isnot like math. It’s English. There isn’t a right answer, or wrong one, or even an answer at all. But with that in mind, I still know this: that while I don’t understand it, the world has a force more powerful than any other. Love.

​Now when I say love, I don’t mean the physical attraction between two people or the magical fairytale love of stories from our childhood. I mean the real, deep-set connection between one person and the rest of the human race. There is one group of people in my life that have consistently portrayed this feeling more than any other: children. Caleb, my five year old brother told me the other day, “Love is good.” Now this at first seems simple, and it in fact actually is simple. But it’s not easy. Love isn’t easy. I wish it was because then everyone would do it. Love is hard, because when we get right down to it love does some hard things. It endures, forgives, and hopes. Hard things in a difficult world. And it disregards the easy: it isn’t proud, doesn’t force its own way, and doesn’t always get what it wants.

​Love is powerful because it leads to people doing things that do not benefit them, but everyone else. It tells us that if we truly love someone as Olaf from Frozen says, “it’s putting other’s needs before your own”. In our lives, loving others leads to very powerful changes. It leads to people going into dangerous situations where they don’t have to be and no one would fault them for not, but doing it anyway because it is good for someone else. Whether it’s heading into a hurricane to help others or simply helping someone carrying a heavy load, doing good things for others with no expectation of a reward is the definition of love. While doing a small thing may not seem to really impact the world, and it may not this follows the rules just like the environment. Taking one tree from a stream doesn’t change the forest at all, but if every person did this the forest would die out entirely.

​So, why wait? Spreading love has good impact on the world as a whole and even will come back to you. The world isn’t a perfect place and it never will be, but that doesn’t mean that sharing love isn’t worth it. I know that love throughout the world will lead to change. I want to be the change I want to see which is why I believe in love.