“Forevermore” ends but the lessons about love remain

ABS-CBN’s top rating tv series Forevermore aired its finale on May 22, but the love story between Alexander Grande III and Maria Agnes Calay will forever leave a mark in the history of Philippine television, and will be remembered by the viewers… Forevermore.

Let us look back and relive the Lessons of Love that Forevermore left for us to ponder on.

1. Love between Parents and Children

Forevermore depicts a strong bond between parents and children. Agnes and Mang Bubs’s close relationship, even Bettina’s unwavering love for Xander, is the perfect epitome of the love between  parents and children.

 

2. The True Value of Friendship

Real friends are not only there when things are going well. Your best treasures are friends who stand by your side, even at your darkest moments.

“Hard times will always reveal true friends.”

3. Love Thy Neighbor

Maybe it is how Forevermore brought to life a community like La Presa that we all hope to live in a society where people are as warm, happy, and loving as the La Presans. Surely, life will be a lot better.

4. Love Defies All Odds

When Xander’s grandmother learned about his love for the farm girl Agnes, she tried to break them apart.  But Xander fought for his love for her. Forevermore emphasized that the strong love we have for someone can actually make us turn the world upside down.

“Huwag kang mawalan ng pag-asa. Hindi porket mukhang imposible hindi na pwedeng mangyari.” — Agnes

5. Love Knows No Boundaries

For when we love someone, there are no boundaries. There are no distances. Nothing can stop us from loving that person. Wherever we may go, even how far we are, true love shall not perish.

“Kahit anong mangyari, kahit nasaang lupalop tayo ng mundo, kahit harangan tayo ng kung sino man diyan, my heart will always belong to you, at walang makakanakaw nito, promise.” — Xander

6. When There is Love, There are Second Chances

We love to experience happiness, we love to feel loved, we love to give love in return. But what if the one we love breaks our heart? No matter how painful, no matter how hurt we were, when we truly love someone, we give love a second chance, maybe even to a new love. Whoever gets the second chance, love just deserves that.

7. Love is Selfless  

When we truly love someone, we love and expect nothing in return. Jay’s love for Agnes is selfless. Doing everything that will make her happy, standing by her side, silently loving her despite knowing there is no chance that the love will be reciprocated.

“Instead of trying to forget those memories, why don’t you make new ones?” –Jay

8. There is No Age limit For Love

Banky and Aling Aunor. Do we need to say more?

9. Love is Forgiving 

No matter how badly we were hurt, when we truly love a person, we forgive them. Maybe not today. Maybe not soon. But at the right time.

“You can give them another chance, or you can forgive, let go, and give yourself a better chance.”

10. Love is Letting Go and Moving On

The worst thing that we can do to someone we love so dearly is to hurt them. And when our love for them is the very source of their pain, of their suffering, we learn to let them go. It will always be better to see them happy with someone else, than keep them to ourselves but become their cause of misery. And after we set them free, we remind ourselves to move on.

“When you love someone, set him free. If he comes back, he’s yours. If he doesn’t, he never was.”

11.  When we loved someone deeply, we never stop loving that person. 

We never stop loving that person. Maybe, in time, we will love them less, or a little differently. But the love will always remain.

12. Love brings out the best in us

Love sees only the good in us. It only sees happiness and smiles and laughter and good memories. And because of this, we become happier, we strive harder to make our loved one love us more everyday, we are at our best when we are in love.

“You have no idea how many times you have saved me.”

13. There is a FOREVER

Yes. There is a forever. For everyone who believes in true, lasting, love — yes, there is a FOREVER.

“I promise that no matter where I go you will always have my heart. I promise that I will always put your happiness before mine.” — Xander