This i Believe Reflection

For homework, I reviewed three "this i believe" articles dealing with the broad category of love.
1. The Power of Love To Transform and Heal
2. People Who Love You When No One Else Will
3. Faithfulness
After reading all three, i realized that love can become a part of your life in so many ways. In the power of love, a woman adopts a child from asia who was abused and scarred for the six years of his life that he had been living. The orphanage owners quickly dropped the boy off in her custody and sped off only bothering to tell her his favorite thing was noodles. He put up a fight for a little six year old, but throughout his tantrums that night, she held him close. She showed him love when he seemed not to show her any in return. He was terrified of his change in environment and was confused. She constantly showed compassion towards the poor little boy and four years later he is in the fourth grade. He's now a smart, hard working, and happy child, all because of the love he was shown.
The second essay involved a woman who as a 15 year old was taken in by her best friend's family. She could have been treated like an outsider but her new family welcomed her with open arms and treated her like their own daughter. Since her real dad couldn't handle taking care of her and her mom had died, she always thought that the only person she could rely on was herself. Without her friend's family's unconditional love she would've turned into a lonely self dependant woman. But she is now a woman touched by the power of love.
The third essay was about a woman's faithfulness to her husband in jail. Her husbad was convicted of a terrible crime and instead of running from it, she stood by his side through the court hearings, and jail time. She visits her husband often and calls him and never once has she thought of leaving him. He really needs her and she believes in the definition of marriage and that nothing can tear them apart. Without the love she has shown her husband in his time of need, he may have given up hope and lost faith in turning his life around.
These three essays taught me that giving love unconditionally always creates good things. These people gave or were given love and it stayed with them forever. Connecting this to the singer solution and water buffalo, instead of giving away as much money as you can to the unfortunate, simple acts of kindness can go much farther. When you show love it's like a chain that keeps going and if you do one good deed to another person, chances are they will want to do more.