Article 1
Christine P. Echevarria
“MU” or MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING
When we say “MU”, first thing comes to our minds were
boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. Let’s try to look in broader sense. We
define the word MUTUAL as common to, or shared by, two or more. And
UNDERSTANDING as the ability to sympathize with another person’s feelings.
Combine it, and then we got the definition of mutual understanding as the
common ability to sympathize feelings of two or more persons.
Most teenagers defined “MU” or mutual understanding as “Magulong
Usapan”. For them, mutual understanding is a feeling of two persons but is not
committed to each other. Their thought on “MU” is negative. Very complicated.
On the contrary, I believe that “MU” happens on two persons at the first
stage of their relationship being friends. It wouldn’t be complicated if you do
what you think is right, if you follow what your heart is saying and if you
voice out what you really feels. Actually, mutual understanding helps two
persons to develop their feelings for each other. From then, they will be the
one who is able to do the rest to build the relationship they want. It depends
on them to make this MU climb one step higher or even make it last for ever.
Also, there is always a mutual understanding on every relationship. On
friendship, boyfriend/girlfriend relationship, etc.
Article 2
Rahameliza dela Pena
M.U: Is it a ‘Mutual Understanding’ or a ‘Misunderstanding’?
M.U (Umasa
kasi ako.) -- Inspired by Marcelo Santos III (Please open the link and
watch the video :))
How can you actually say that you’re sharing
the same special feeling with someone special in your heart?
“M.U is a feeling of being in love without
having the label of being official” This definition was given to me by my friend Hazel when we
shared our thoughts about M.U or what the people called as ‘mutual
understanding’
We call it mutual because two people feel the
same feeling, the feeling of being special, towards their partners or safe to
say, their ‘other half’. It means that the feeling is there, but the label of
being taken or having an official relationship is missing.
Some are saying that being in an ‘M.U’ stage
is just a sign of being afraid. Afraid to take risks. Afraid to take
commitments. When I asked another friend for her understanding about M.U, she
quoted me this...
‘Walang magandang relasyon ang
nabubuo kung sasabihin nyong M.U lang kayo’.
When she said this, one idea comes in my mind.
It’s unfair for each party to just call what they have as ‘M.U’. Because since
they don’t have commitments to each others, expectation should not be set. It
also means that you can still treat other girl/boy special without having the
idea at the back of your mind that you’re already doing the same thing to
another girl/boy.
What’s the difference between M.U and ‘special
friends’? Actually, there’s none. Because the two ideas were just created by
people, maybe in love or afraid to fall in love, to escape on the reality of
their true feelings.
Credits to Credits to http://marian16rox.tumblr.com/post/21969599776/you-are-free-free-to-dream-to-love-to-laugh-and for
the photos.
Article 3
Mary Jean V. Legaspi
A
relationship is like a rose,
How long it
lasts, no one knows;
Love can
erase an awful past,
Love can be yours, you'll see at last;
To feel that love, it
makes you sigh,
To have it leave, you'd rather die;
You hope you've found that special rose,
'Cause you love and
care for the one you chose.
- Rob Cella
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I'm a girl who doesn't know more about love
until someone told me "M.U kau!" and that was the time when I started
to ask about M.U - Mutual Understanding. Unfortunately, until know I haven't
find it's real meaning but majority used to say M.U is "MAGULONG USAPAN".
Wondering WHY "Magulong Usapan"?
Well, let me tackle this you.
According to my research M.U is...
1. You care
a lot for each other more than a friend does
2. Missing
each other even for a while
3. Texting
everyday, asking i'f you've already eaten your breakfast, lunch, dinner as well
as if you're taking your sleep very well
4. and you
like to be with each other every seconds, minutes, hours, days, and nights.
But you know what's the real meaning of M.U?
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However, maybe some people who are involve
with this kind of situation have lighten up their minds what exactly is their
feeling for each other and sooner or later end up with a formal relationship or
even marriage. Well, it is just depend for the both of you.
Geraldine P. Balbada
Being teenager is the most exciting part of our life, as Whiz Khalifa song says we are young, wild and free. Just
imagine living and doing things you like without any major complication. You
can even go to places you’ve never set foot before and enjoy it without minding
a work, a husband or a Son to take care of. You can party hard with the people
you just met, or simply occupy yourself with your family and handouts from
school. And as a teenager
we often use our hearts instead of brain and fall hard to someone who shows you
what you think is… Love (oohh… come on! ADMIT it!).
Teens usually use the phrase “MU” for “mutual
understanding” that sooner or later will lead to another “MU” or “Magulong-Usapan”.
Mutual understanding is a stage between friendship and courtship, where usually
a Guy/girl shows intense affection to his/her opposite sex and acts as if they are in a BFGF relationship. It’s
also an Almost like relationship/Fling where there might be a verbal agreement
where the two of you admitted your feelings by saying it or it may be
non-verbal where you just let your gestures do the talking.
Being inside the arrangement of MU is pretty hard. Because there
are no assurances in here; you just keep on investing your feelings and
attaching yourself to that someone and end up hurting yourself for you don’t
have the rights to demand, to be jealous and to claim him, since there is NO COMMITMENT. But sometimes
it’s a matter of understanding, trust and comfort you found in your friends
arm. Even thou you know how these things will end up You still hope that things
between the two of you will be fine but at the same time expecting the consequences
that it may end up in a
messy and tearful way.
This kind of situation often happens on students who spend more
time outside their home and exposing themselves to the unfamiliar affection of
other people asides from their family and close friends. As far as I know there
are factors that trigger a person to enter this kind of Situation such as; (1) they are afraid to commit, (2) they are just enjoying your company
and want to spend more intimate time with you, (3) maybe both of you want to try this
kind of situation and see where it will leads, or (4) because you love him/her but you are
committed to someone else.
As a teen, I’ve been through that before and not impossible to be
with that kind of situation again. In the circumstances like MU, confusion and
pain are packaged and there’s no way to avoid it. You take the risk of being
broken to be with that someone and take all the chances to be happy but tried
not to think about the future and the truth; the truth that there is no “US” in the picture and there is no real
Relationship between you two at all. And there is no one to blame but yourself
for you already know how this situation will end before you started it.
Falling in love has its own magic. It conquers everything,
including the truth and the reality. Not all the time when you fall there’s
always someone that is ready to catch you. Sometimes whether you like it or
not, you have to hit the ground first to understand things and wake yourself
from always using you heart instead of your brain.
So don’t enter this kind
of situation: MUTUAL
UNDERSTANDING is COMPLICATED.
Article 5
Chita Nepomuceno
Nowadays getting involve in a relationship is not just a means of
confessing feeling to someone you love sometimes it may mean for common
understanding that both of you are suit for companionship, that both of you are
fun in many different things and both of you would mean the presence of same
affection and that without the other one would fail the hearts’ want and this
is what we call M.U.(mutual understanding).
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For me as a teenager, the so called mutual understanding may
defines for good foundation before getting in a relationship. But on the other
hand mutual understanding may lead for unwanted mischiefs of both affected
partner just like those of in a relationship, they may also experience
heartbreaks and what worst here is that neither of them can’t demand for what
they wanted their companion should do because at foremost they do not have this
so called bonded relationship or in other words they do not have the label of
“officially in a relationship.”
However, just as I said earlier Mutual Understanding may also
define for good foundation before getting in a relationship, once both
affectionate individuals start of being MU they may have then this so called
more understanding of the attitudes of each other and mean for stronger bonds
since the common ground for building a good relationship is having the
so-called more understanding of partners and knowledge of how to deal with the
companion’s wants.
Moreover, the mutual understanding now is then became the most
used label by those of affectionate individuals for the reason may be some
teens may want still to keep the traditional standards of placing oneself
in a relationship at the right age or right circumstance that they defined.
Article 5
Mary Rose E. Navarro
It is a trend for teenagers nowadays to have an complicated status of involving themselves in a relationship. “Magulong-Usapan”, defined by them. With those sweet words and a meaningful efforts that can make them feel special, they get easily fell in love.
You like him, like he used too. You care for him, like he used to do. And you love him, and he feel the same way too. You are like real partners- but not actually.
These are some factors that maybe considered as in an complicated relationship.
When teenagers say “M.U”, the first thought that comes into my mind as a teenager is that a relationship which is not official or doesn’t have a label. It is something that both parties appreciate all the efforts being exerted by one another. And at the same time, enjoying each others company.
It is falling inlove with the person who is then inlove with you but because of certain factors that hinders the confirmation of the relationship, it remains unofficial.
To name a few reasons, first is that, because maybe one of the person involve in the relationship is confused about the feelings that he or she had. Yes, there is a confusion but she thinks the dominating feelings is that he or she love the let say his unofficial partner. Secondly, maybe one of them had this second thought of “what if i was not love by this person?”. There is a fear on the consequences. And thirdly, because this relationship has no assurance that once it will be confirmed, there is a question will it still be the same like there is nothing change on the relationship that you have before.
This is “M.U”. No Label. No confirmation. Not official. Untold. And its really COMPLICATED!
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