Today I made the long drive to the University through heat waves that shimmered off the black of the freeway pavement. I maneuvered through the flow of traffic with a certain sadness nestled within the hidden crevice of my mind. Against the wishes of my mother, I was on the way to my boyfriend’s graduation. Like a complete idiot I spilled the beans about our relationship to la madre and subsequently regretted the spoken words of revealing truth that I would not be able to swallow back.
I let myself go this quarter and did not apply any smidgen of motivation towards studying the three quarters worth of physics. Without a doubt the professor was wonderful but I just did not find the drive that kept me up late at night poring and leafing through my fat physics book. However, I can safely say that I can apply one concept we learned third quarter to my so-called life.
Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity is based on two postulates.
One of which states: “the laws of physics are the same for all observers in uniform motion relative to one another”.
In the simplest, life-applicable explanation possible, the theory of relativity is saying that unless if you’re floating in the same boat, coming from the same background/experiences, walking that same path in life, one is unable to see through the eyes of the other. This is why I am going to say that love is relative.
Like an outsider peering through the window closed off to the ongoing activities of what lays inside, the eyes of an observer outside of love’s four walls looks past the emotions and meaning of love’s affairs. My mother and close friends are outside watching, thinking that they know what goes in my heart and what the meaning of my relationship with the boy is. They do not see what I see and what I see is the great person that he will grow to be. I love him and hope that we will both become stronger people through an enduring, encouraging, unconditional love. I will try to be optimistic during this hard time of tribulation. Hopefully my mother will understand someday what a great person he really is.
Then again, she could be right about him. Who knows..
