Love Is For Everyone

Title: Love Is For Everyone

Topic: Love

Relation: In our ANTHO text book, Robbins talked about three different groups of people and their love life. The groups are the Ju/wasi, Trobriand islanders and the chinese (Robbins, p. 124-125). The main things in these groups are love, sex and wealth; each having different role in them. In the Ju/wasi, wealth does not play a big part in their lives, but for the women in this group, love, sex and beauty are very important.  The reason why this relates to me is because not only am I in a relationship with a man, but I also look at the values that the Ju/wasi live by. 

Description: Being raised in a house hold that had mexican values, my mother always taught me that money wasn't always everything. As I grew up and learned more about myself, I figured out that "love" and having the "special one" was not about having money, but to have amazing feelings for someone. During the summer of my post high school senior year, I met my boyfriend while we were taking our entrance exams for the CSU systems. On our freshmen year, we became roommates and the moved into our townhouse by our 2nd year. While it was super hard to maintain the relationship that my boyfriend and I had, it became harder to maintain myself due to short of money. Finding a job here in Arcata seemed almost impossible, but with luck, I was hired during the summer of 11' to work as a house keeper for the Housing + Dining office. There would be times in which I would have nothing to eat because all of my money went to my cell phone bills, and my boyfriend would have money, but my mother taught me not to take money that I didn't earn myself. Also with the fact that I have a man instead of a woman, society thinks that this is a wrong thing. But I feel that slowly, but surely society is letting it go. Being almost two years together, my boyfriend and I have been through a lot of things together and have learned that money, society or anything else that involves bad karma can stop us from being together because we "love" each other. No one really knows what love is, but I think that someone makes their own definition when they feel something different with someone. 

Commentary/Analysis: After being together for almost two years, my boyfriend and I have learned a lot about each other and feeling as though we have gotten closer. Love to me is something that feels amazing. I feel someone different for the person I love. I love my mother, my family, but the love the I feel with my significant other is bigger than the love for my family. Wealth does nothing, but cause problems and there is always a bad that comes out of it.