INTRODUCTION

Part 1

What is love actually? I have been pondering this question over and over as I don't know the real meaning behind the word "love". Is love the feeling you had when someone says they like you? Or is it the first feelings you got from your parents when they shower you with attention and care from this world. The promises they make that they will take care of you from this world? Is it when you got your first dog and wants to give it everything you can gives from this world? Or is it love when you don't want to share your lover to someone else?

To tell you the truth, I don't know. I wouldn't know. My friend, Maria said that "love" are subjective. Really?

'Different people have different opinions on love. For me, love is when you care for someone and always wants the best for them. Like if my mum was sick, I will take care of her. Cause I love her. Love towards your family, partner and friends are different. How do I put this? You know what? I think you should fall in love first then you will understand what i mean.'

I don't really understand much on Maria understanding of love. I have known Maria since I was 8 years old. I was reading a book at that time. I don't remember the title but if im not mistaken its about an adventure of a boy who were left behind by his parents because of his face. He had this terrible scar on his face since he was born. Many people were terrified by his physical appearance including his parents. Therefore by the age of 10, his parents decides to left him on an island and gives him an axe, a book, clothes, food and water. They told him that, by the time he finished reading the book, they will come back and take him home. He then decides to roam the island and found some native villages there. They accepted him with their open arm. It took exactly 1 week for him to finished the book. By the time he finished reading it, he waited for his parents to come and get him on the spot where they left him. Hours goes by and his parents never show up. He was confused and thinks that maybe they dont know that he had finished reading the book. He then decides to make a raft and goes to find his parents. By the time he reached his home. He was caught off guard seeing some other boy were there wearing his clothes and sleeping in his room. He then heard that his parents called the boys name as his name. He was shocked, confused and mad. He now knows that he was being left alone on the island so that he will not come home again. And that day was the day he understands the meaning of love. He then decides to leave his home and headed somewhere where people accept him for what he his. That is the Island.