What Is Love?

        After watching a halting episode in the odyssey of the television show, Hannah Montana, I am severely aware of this question. On the brink of tears, (yes, endings never cease to fill my eyes with tears) I speculate over the last years of Hannah Montana. Throughout the seasons of life, Miley parades that those in her life, her family, best friend, and boyfriend epitomize the backbone of her strength. As she progresses, approaches relationship troubles, faces contention in the fame, Miley gapes at those closely around her to provide the stability to endure.

       In the show, love is perseverance. Not only do the romantic aspects of Hannah Montana greatly symbolize how love perpetuates. Wherever Miley travels, the arms of her father are the most genial and gracious embrace. Even through their tussles, Miley recurs, conducting an unyielding bond with the single parent remaining.

       While love is relentless and untiring,  Jake and Miley do come to a pitiless, doleful cessation. Together surviving some of the most rapidly changing years, middle school and high school years, Miley and Jake discover their love to be inadequate. Coming out of the combat zone called high school, they find each to be too much sacrifice for too little reward. In the resolution, the few words spoken and the multiple unspoken are some of the most wrenching in the life of Hannah Montana.

        The river bend brings change. As Jake and Miley retreat, the previously seen Jesse comes into the panorama once again. The dreamy, charming, and definitely-more-attractive-than-Jake guitarist and rocker adds an undiscovered element of spontaneity and chance for Miley. Jesse shows Miley that while coping with her double life is not only inconvenient but distressing, she is worth the atonement. Miley grasps how Jesse's generosity far outweighs hers and is compelled to announce her secret to the entire world for his and best friend, Lilly's, sake. Miley manifests the endurance of love. She leases her one constant and steady variable, her identity of Hannah Montana, to seize the leap in order to meet Jesse halfway.

         Lastly is Lilly, the loyal Lola and ardent pal since before the awkward ages of the sixth grade. Finally, a split comes between the two inseparable teens. Their dream college accepts Lilly but not Miley, forcing both to make a pivotal decision. Selfishness or selflessness? Me or My Best Friend's and My Relationship? While the ending leaves the audience semi-unsure and certainly expecting more, Miley does forgo Hannah's identity for the sacrifices Lilly made in order to keep Miley's secret and so no more sacrifices will be made. In this crucial episode, we see Miley abandon her typical selfish character and succumbs Hannah existence. She embodies the endurance of love and allows no obstacle an avenue between her and the ones fundamental to her.

       Miley says Love Is Perseverance; however, it is solely a show, a movie in principal. So, since life is no movie... What Is Love?