Fences Persuasive Speech

Dominique D’Antico
This I Believe Essay

This I Believe.

Fences. They’re symbolic for many things. Some use fences to keep something restrained, some use fences to keep something away. Some use fences as a form of protection, and some use fences to separate themselves from another. Now, fences aren’t always bad. No, sometimes they’re actually quite useful. But to me, in love, fences are ugly. In love, fences shouldn’t be needed. In love, fences should never exist. This is what I believe. Love isn’t just restricted to relationships, boyfriend and girlfriend, husband and wife, so on and so forth. You can love a best friend, someone you’ve told absolutely everything to, someone you trust with your life. You love your relatives, mom and dad,
You were cared for by someone, maybe not mom and dad, maybe aunt and uncle, some other family member, or just some other people who you can consider family. They cared for you, and poured their love into you. No matter what age you are now, you still hold that love that they gave you, and in turn you love them. That’s just how it works. But what if you witness your father cheating on your mother? What if your uncle hits you for disobedience and your aunt is a drug addict? What if your caretakers just constantly fight? You build up your own fences. You get scared, you get hurt, and your only way of self defense is to guard yourself. Not only is it detrimental to yourself, to be completely shut out like that, it is detrimental to anyone else in your life who will try to love you in the future. In your own family, in your own flesh and blood, you should never have to build fences. If you’ve taken damage from someone who you thought loved you more than the world, it ruins you. If you love someone like that, it will break you down. The fences you build against your own family are some of the strongest fences you can build, and I wish that some families were better to their kids because those fences should never have to
I think that’s absolutely absurd. Maybe I’m too young to get it, but why can’t everyone just love once and stay together? It baffles me that something always has to go wrong. The fences we build play a huge role in this, as well. Whether they’re the fences we’ve built in the past from a rough childhood or terrible heartbreak, or completely new fences built on the foundation of pain from your lover, they succeed in slowly splitting a relationship. Sometimes, just sometimes, the partner is able to help the person take their fence down and repair the damage that has been done, but sadly that’s not the case all the time. There are cheaters, there are liars, there are the ones that just convince you that they love you and throw you to the side. There are so many terrible things that can be done to someone in love, because if you’re truly in love you want to let all of your fences down to let them in, where you’re vulnerable. If they hurt you once they’re inside, you use all of your power to build every fence you can to push them away and out of your life. If you love someone like that, you shouldn’t hurt them, especially if they’ve given their heart to you. If you love someone that much, there should never have to be any fences between