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Ranier Maria Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet"

I agree with what the article was saying about the mistakes many young people tend to commit: forming relationships with other people at a very young age, that is romantic relationships, going beyond their years. I believe that young people nowadays are more aware of what it is like to be old people (at an early age they are given roles that are way beyond their years. Some teenagers act as parents to their younger sibling while other are asked to act as adult in order to earn a living or just be able to get through a day's work (in school or at home). Today's society is somewhat forcing the younger generation to learn to understand how things happen even at a very young age. Because of this, the younger generation tend to have this false sense of maturity. They believe that they could already handle things like the adults do. They try to do what the older people are doing. Because of this, they enter into relationships and assume adult roles. When they are already immersed in the way adults live, they realize that they are weak. They realize that they don't like what is happening. So they tend to escape from the responsibilities. But sometimes its already too late, and as the readings says, they lose themselves, lose the other and many others who still wanted to come. Many possibilities were inhibited.

--> nakalulungkot lamang isipin na ang mga nagnanais magligtas sa mga kabataan ang siya ring naglilibing sa kanila sa hukay. hindi man napapansin ng mga nakatatanda, nariyan ang katotohanan na ang pagnanais nilang ituro ang mga bagay-bagay batay sa kanilang mga karanasan, may pagtatakda na ganito rin ang posibleng maranasan ng mga kabataan. para bang iniharap na sila sa pintuan nang hindi pa naman pumapasok sa bahay. inihaharap na sa kanila ang mga opsyon bago pa man nila kinailangang pumili. ang pagmamadaling ito ang minsan nagiging sanhi ng mga suliranin ng maraming kabataan. iniisip nilang ito nga ang mangyayari sa kanila kaya naman kumikilos sila batay sa isang naitakda nang balangkas, na batay sa mga higit na nakatatanda.

We then talked about line 176. I interpreted this line in this way: The love situation described in line 176 is like a meeting between two individuals. They are individuals, meaning they have clear and defined boundaries. The are two solitudes, meaning they have unique identities that are not dissolved or consumed by the other. When two people meet in genuine love relationship, they grow together, nurture each other without necessarily dissolving each other. Their solitudes protect or border each other from getting dissolved in each other. One does not demand the other to be like him or her. But this solitude is not like the walls of an enclosed box. It is like the walls of a house, with windows where one can communicate with the other. They are "greeting" each other in a loving relationship. They accept each other as they are and grow through what each other has, through what each other is. It is a situation of constant communication and growth. Communication though no word is said and growth in silence. Cams was able to think of an image for this. An image that somewhat exhibit this but not quite. It is like the collision between two object. The two things meet at one point but they don't get absorbed into each other. They remain as two separate entities. The big difference is that in collision, the two object that met at one point then separate and take two separate paths. This is the opposite of the love relationship since after meeting each other, they make a decision to be with each other wherever one goes, the other also goes. It is a serious decision to be with each other no matter what happens.

--> kaya marahil hindi pa ako pumapasok sa isang seryosong relasyon, dahil hindi pa ako handa. naniniwala akong marami pa akong dapat matutuhan at gawin bago ko marating ang puntong ito ng aking buhay. sa ngayon kasi, nais kong magkaroon muna ng mga pamatayan sa buhay, mga ideolohiya at pagpapahalagang kakapitan ko. maaaring mayroon na ako nito ngayon ngunit nais kong mapatatag ang paniniwala ko sa mga ito. alam ko na magbabago pa ang mga ito batay sa mga magaganap sa hinaharap ngunit nais kong magkaroon ng mga panimula. para naman hindi ko susuungin ang agos ng buhay nang walang pinanghahawakang kahit ano...