Monday, October 19, 2009

Dead Star by Paz Marquez Benitez


What is Love?
Is love a mere fabrication of perfervid imagination, an exaggeration of the common place, a glorification of insipid monotonies? is love a combination of circumstances, or sheer native capacity of soul? Is love a decision or a destiny?

35 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love is a feeling of passionate desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair.It is an indescribable feeling of affection and care toward a person, such as that arising from close connection, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.
In the story, dead stars symbolize a dream for something that is nonexistent. The guy loved the girl. She was his dream, his star. He thought there was love there. But like a dead star which is so far away, and whose shine could actually be the leftover traveling light from it, he was a long way from getting the girl, and the love he thought was possible, never was.
-Giovanni Artajo

Anonymous said...

For me, Love is a strong sense of attraction and affection towards the person whom you admire the most. It is an indescribable feeling that usually puzzles a persons' mind. However, it is only up to the person on how he/she handle his/her feelings. Hence, Love is a decision that a person must think of seriously. For love is not a joke. It is very delicate and fragile. It can ruin ones life if it is not handled with care. So, we should love unconditionally and decide wisely. Enjoy Loving!
-TALON, Maria Leonora Teresa S.

Anonymous said...

love is a feeling of being attracted to someone because of something you have seen in her that others don't have.Love is not only for those who are lovers but for all of us.When you love someone you fell inspired in all the things you do because of him. Love can cause you much joy for the reason that it greatly inspires you.But it can also cause you so much pain for to be hurt is part of that thing. So be careful on loving someone, choose the right one. Don't love as if its a game because after all of that you will be the one to lose.----I LOVE YOU ALL---
--Rose May C. Rivera

rhyan said...

For me,"The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it, from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love, because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life."
"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more."
-Bangalan,Rhyan M.

Anonymous said...

Love is seeing an imperfect person perfectly. It is a bond or connection between two people that results in trust,intimacy,and an interdependence that enhances both partners. It is also the ability and willingness to allow those you care for to be what they choose for themselves.It is a combination of circumstances because we can feel love in an unexpected time and place. Furthermore, love is a decision making that needs more thinking in order to prevent regrets. I LOVE YOU! YEAH! YOU!
-CADERAO, Nelly P.

Anonymous said...

What is love? It is one of the most difficult questions for the mankind. It is unpredictable, inevitable that it makes the world go round. One of the basic psychological needs of a person that it makes the person to strive hard and continue to live despite of the myriad problems. For my personal opinion, love is so powerful that even science cannot give a brief explanation. That some people simply concluded that love is all in the mind, that it is the mind that interpret one's feeling. But whatever opinions may they have I do belive that "True love waits" and falling inlove is a long process that you cannot learn to love a certain person in one week! Love takes enough time to have a good decision because expression of man's love is conditonal, wants in return, bargaining "i love you, but" and expression of God's love no limits, unending,lasting and unconditional.

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
William Shakespeare.

-Sadlucap, Kristine Mae N.

Anonymous said...

Love is when someone hurts you. and you get so mad but you don't yell at him/her because you know it would hurt his/her feelings.
Love for someone is like a shadow following every beat of your heart and it means that they can live their life no matter what happen.Love for me is learning to see the beauty of the world as is said "love give color to your life".Loving someone through their flaws and all. Accepting and embracing each others differences and compromising with their offerings and it is a strong feeling you can hold tell death to us part.It is like a friendship which you can hold as you go on your life and it can cause you inspiration, happiness and a symbol of strong attraction toward your star.The one who do everything to be with him/her all the time.
CARE TO LOVE, JUST WAIT FOR THE RIGHT TIME.

> EBDAO, DIANE JOY C. <

Anonymous said...

Love is the best gift of God has given us. It is sometimes weak yet the most powerful if given with full protection and care. It is a mere fabrication of perfervid imagination. For if we love, we experience things that is beyond our imagination and we create unpredictable memories that are hard to forget.It is also a serious decision that persons must think to.
-ESTELITO, Ariane G.

Anonymous said...

Love is something that cant be defined by words but by action. It is more on sacrifices as you enter into this world, It is a big decision to be made and their are a lot of circumstances that may experienced and is not easy to leave without solving this. On the other hand, it is a destiny when it comes of religious speaking because God is the holder of everything.
Lobitaña, Vanessa L.

Anonymous said...

Love is a intense of a affection, an emotion that people feel.some say love is something that floats in the air, and the other one say that love is a source of the stupidity of the person. But for me love is something that cannot be describe with words at all.Love is not a destiny we make love for our own good and good for every one.PEOPLE LOOKING FOR LOVE ITS NOT A DESTINY AT ALL.
The Dead Star Story is talks about how the person love and also how the love die. the story talking to a boy who looking for someone that he love but when he is in the front of the girl he never feel love at all its like a dead star that never twinkle in the sky.

LAZO, MICHELLE T.

nody b. salon said...

love is give and receive.
it is a glorification of insipid monotones because you love a person through inspiration and gave glory to your love but second god.
its doesn't matter that both of you need to give native capacity of soul.
for me love is a decision because god give people to decide think what to do in life.

Anonymous said...

love is give and receive.
it is a glorification of insipid monotones because you love a person through inspiration and gave glory to your love but second god.
its doesn't matter that both of you need to give native capacity of soul.
for me love is a decision because god give people to decide think what to do in life.

Anonymous said...

love is give and receive.
it is a glorification of insipid monotones because you love a person through inspiration and gave glory to your love but second god.
its doesn't matter that both of you need to give native capacity of soul.
for me love is a decision because god give people to decide think what to do in life.

Anonymous said...

love is give and receive.
it is a glorification of insipid monotones because you love a person through inspiration and gave glory to your love but second god.
its doesn't matter that both of you need to give native capacity of soul.
for me love is a decision because god give people to decide think what to do in life.

Anonymous said...

Love is the best of everything, we give it to the one we love and we treasure, love can be expressed in different ways and by this you become a complete person, with that love you have to a particular person in your life and if you love someone you will do anything just for the sake of love..But, in this story Dead star a boy fell in love with another woman whom, he thought that after a year of not seeing each other the feelings that he had for that woman will last but later on he realize that it is just an admiration..If you love someone be sure that till the end,the feelings that you have will be there forever till the end of time." LOVE TAKES TIME"

-Dy,Leah Grace J.

Anonymous said...

Love isn't about attraction not about infatuation, when you love someone be sure of what you feel and if you made a decision be responsible for it and be sure when you love your feelings for that person is true and if you see someone that you think that make you laugh,and made you smile and you feel at ease when you see him/her its not a guarantee that it is already love.In this sad story the Dead star it simply tell us that man are easily attracted to someone who is funny and who made them smile when they are lonely,but later on he realize that it is just an infatuation..In this life LOVE is being true to what you feel for someone and spend the rest of your life to the one you really love.

-Fabro,Juncri

roderick villegas said...

We’ve been given the impression that to define love is near to impossible. Maybe there’s a fear that if we define it, it would somehow be less powerful...less impactful...less exhilarating. Maybe we like the mystery of it. But is it really that complicated? Perhaps the complications surrounding love come from all “stuff” we add on to this powerful emotion. Lets drop all the baggage surrounding relationships and define what it is we are experiencing in the moment of love. love is also Appreciation is one step beyond acceptance. Its when your focus is on what you like about another. We look at them and feel this sweeping appreciation for who they are, their joy, their insights, their humor, their companionship, etc. When someone says they are "in love" with another, they mean their appreciation is so enormous for this person that it consumes their every thought.

-roderick villegas

Anonymous said...

Love is a personal choice bacause a decision is made independently by the self and not being dictated by others. It has a reason for itself of which only emotion can give a reason.

--SUMINTAN, MA. FRETHEL B.

Anonymous said...

They say love started as what we saw through our nakedeye. For me, love is a felt when you saw someone and you feel you are complete. It's just that you saw something within her/him that is not coomon to anybody or to anyone. UNIQUE.


====Steffany Mar Sangasa===

Anonymous said...

FOR ME LOVE IS GIFT OF GOD BECAUSE LOVE IS ONE OF THE MAJOR FEELING THAT WE FEEL EVERYDAY..AND LOVE IS ONE OF THE POWERFUL FEELINGS BECAUSE OF LOVE WE DO EVERYTHING EVENTHOUGH LOVE SOMETIMES CAN HARM US...


-ELBEN MIRANDA-

vanessa said...

Love is something that you feel. It grows, It change just like all things. you will know it is love when you'll feel comfortable with that person.It makes you think a hundred times in a day with the same person, its like your life will not be complete without that someone.he/she will be the piece of puzzle that completes you..After all, Love is a Choice!
A gift fro Gd

- Vanessa May Yu

hansel said...

Love isn't blind or deaf or dumb.To love them is to see who they really are and still care for them. Love isn't bitter, but you can't have love without pain: sacrifice is the hallmark of love , the coin of love.there is no true meaning in love. love with meaning is not love. love is unexplainable you cant understand why you felt that way.love is so powerful.

Gran,Hansel Lourdes

Anonymous said...

For me,love is an explainable and transferable feeling. It is both a destiny and a decision. Because the way you meet the one you love is destiny and it is a decision because you can choose if you will pursue what you feel or just leave it and look for another one.Love is a matter of choice, and a matter of happiness so we cannot blame those people who fall in love with people who are not capable of loving them back, bacause it's their own choice and maybe they are happy to be with those people. KEEP LOVING!
-Rena May Gabinete

Anonymous said...

LOVE FOR ME IS LIKE A RIVER THAT FLOWS FOREVER!!! Love is it cannot breath a na no scond without u cuz i love u!cuz i only dream of u..my life has full of love..that is what love means
--Daren faye Eugenio

Anonymous said...

Love is where you might share your incompleteness with your partner. It not about destiny because we are the one who makes our decisions in our life. It is really worth fighting for, risking everything for, and a treasure to preserve for a lifetime.

",)MENDOZA, LUROHAMA JANE E.<<<<

Anonymous said...

For me life is complicated when it comes to love. Deciding when to love is just a merely second action after you pursue your love to somebody. Because, love comes in a surprise manner to a person. So, I cannot say that loving is a decision in mans life. Also, love comes in different ways you will be simply hate the person but inside you just cant dare to be away from him. Love I think is a once in a life time experience that a person may feel to somebody. So, when it comes grab the oppotunity because we cannot be able to feel the way as we felt before the first time we are inlove. As these saying goes, "love is a precios feeling we feel as a human being."

Anonymous said...

For me life is complicated when it comes to love. Deciding when to love is just a merely second action after you pursue your love to somebody. Because, love comes in a surprise manner to a person. So, I cannot say that loving is a decision in mans life. Also, love comes in different ways you will be simply hate the person but inside you just cant dare to be away from him. Love I think is a once in a life time experience that a person may feel to somebody. So, when it comes grab the oppotunity because we cannot be able to feel the way as we felt before the first time we are inlove. As these saying goes, "love is a precios feeling we feel as a human being."
-Anna Lou Tamparong

Anonymous said...

For me life is complicted when it comes to love. Deciding when to love is just merely a second action after you pursue your love to somebody. Because, love comes in a surprise manner in a person. So, I cannot say that loving is a decision in mans life. Also, love comes in different ways you will be simply hate the person but inside you just can't dare to be away from him. Love, I think is a once in a life time experience that a person may feel to somebody. So, when it comes grab the oppotunity because we cannot be able to feel the same way as we felt before the first time we in love. As these saying goes,"love is a precious feeling we feel as a human being."
-Anna Lou Tamparong

Anonymous said...

Love makes life special. It is where a person becomes inspired. Love is not just for lovers, but also for your family. If we don't love, we might lose everything we have, we might live our lives miserably. Therefore, Love is a decision. Because everything you do starts with a choice and later on decide.
-Jeffrey N. Damasing

Anonymous said...

love is a ultimate power of individual, because no one else can control of it. love is unmeasurable feeling, it is a life of survival that it has the capacity to carry the prudent success towards life. In the story of life begins of love, that hold stronger and forever. The true love comes when the individuals showing worthiness that they work for the rest of their life.

@KATHY P. BACONGA @

floyd said...

ahm.. love? for me, it is a special feeling that we feel to others.love is a strange thing. it can be the most amazing feeling in the world, or it can really hurt, but in the end love is something most, if not all of us, will face...

--floyd adam chio--

villegs said...

for me a love is a strong feeling that may cause of understanding in each other,love is not a destiny or rather not a decision,it came from the deep inside of heart.it tell to us how our love can determine who is a right .maybe be love is the a combination of circumtances but it also depend on it because sometimes love cannot determine by circumtances,it came from the heart a right decision.

Villegas roderick

Anonymous said...

Love is an emotion that expresses passion. It may not always give us happiness but it gives us pleasure. It makes us feel that we are protected and cared by those who loves us. It is a decision for it makes us think and decide onto the right thing that one must do. How great would it be, to be with that person whom you loved and known for a long time and of course in return who loves you as well?. It would be a life worth living and worth loving. Let us all stay in love!
Glichel C. Jabagat

Anonymous said...

love is a decision not a destiny. there are times when we ourselves are unaware of our emotional need to love. and yet somehow our subconscious selves finds a way for us to obtain love. love is very subjective and love comes in varying degrees of intensity and types. it is a human need.One that we most definitely can live without but it is one that is crucial to our own personal happiness.
GODBLESS....

--AURIGUE, DONALD P.--

Anonymous said...

the story of dead star is all about love that never be forget. In this story you could able to understand what love is.
it this story it symbolizes that you can sacrifice everything in the name of love.





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