A HUG IS NEARLY A GUN SPELLED BACKWARD
Many might agree with E.M. Forster
when he stated that personal relations are more important than causes or
patriotism. What do you personally think about this? Are personal relations
really more important than patriotism, or is it the opposite? I personally
think that personal relations are more important than patriotism, here’s why. Patriotism
means “love that people feel for their country,” as the Merriam Webster
dictionary says. As you can see there, patriotism is just the love towards your
country, which to me doesn’t seem that important. Now, personal relations are “close
connections between people, formed by emotional bonds and interactions,” as the
online dictionary says. This seems to grab more my attention, due to the fact
that is mentions “connections between people.” Now to answer the question, Agree
or disagree with E.M. Forster's view that personal relations are more important
than causes or patriotism? I would say that I do agree with E.M. Foster’s
statement. I do agree that personal relations are more important than patriotism
because it’s something that most of us humans have in common and can connect
with. With personal relations we bond, love one another, connect, and many more
with family, friends, and partners. When in patriotism you can only share your
facts and/or affection towards your country.
To begin with, you can see personal
relations between family, like mostly every day. Personal relations are seen in
families when they express their love towards one another. As many might know,
some families don’t even show love, but there are other ways that they show
personal relations. For example, when a family is bonding in any way, no matter
how but them being together and them spending time as a family, in a positive
way of course. You can’t really see patriotism in families, unless they love
talking about their love towards their country, which I don’t think they do,
maybe. With personal relation a family comes together as one person. In less words,
personal relation is like the pillar that holds the family together, in my own
personal opinion. It can also be seen between friends. Friends bond with each
other mostly every day, they come together to appreciate that they have each
other. Personal opinions can also be seen between partners. Partners build up
affection and love, which shows how personal relations takes place. Personal relation
is seen and experienced by others every day, no matter the occasion.
Next, patriotism is quite different
from personal relations as I mentioned before. I would consider myself not much
of a patriotic person. You may wonder why, so here’s why. I know that
patriotism comes around when people celebrate a holiday from their country. For
example, in America most of the people celebrate the 4th of July
big. That’s the time of the year when everyone shows patriotism, their love
towards their own country of whom they are proud of. Patriotism isn’t really
something of much meaning, people might not even know much about their country.
There might be some persons out there in the world that show patriotism in a
daily basis, not just by saying the Pledge of Allegiance but in a different way.
We all show patriotism everyday but it’s probably only once per day, maybe even
just for 5 minutes, that is when we say the Pledge of Allegiance. Many don’t know
the main facts about the United States, which isn’t bad.
Lastly, patriotism and personal relations
might have different definitions to them, but they have some things in common. They
share the fact that they both bring persons together as one. It can bring them
together either by discussing how they feel about something or how they feel
towards each other. They don’t have many similarities, but I’ll try my best to
say most. They provide communication towards persons and their family, friends,
and/or partner. They both also show love towards something. People can bond
with each other, some people love talking about their love for their country
and no, it’s not weird it’s called being different. It’s like me just talking
about my love for agriculture every day, which I kind of do. Anyways, those are
all the similarities that I could think of.
Clearly, I agree with E.M.
Forster's view that personal relations are more important than causes or
patriotism. Personal relations show more affection between people and can share
more facts towards basically anything. Even though both show love towards
something personal relation would still be my choice. Expressing yourself in
such a way towards something besides a country might be hard with patriotism. I
know I already stated my opinion to what I think is more important, but that doesn’t
mean that other think the same as me. Every single person has different opinion
towards things and also a different way of thinking. To connect with the title,
hugs come in helpful no matter the occasion. We all need them once in a while,
or even if we don’t need them we still get at least one. Hugs helps you stay
connected and close to the people you care about!
