Young Love

  It’s funny what they say about love. That teenagers are too young to feel it. They’re naive. I beg to differ, but it could be the biased thoughts each person is cursed with. I am a teenager, and I refuse to believe I have not experienced love. Love is something inside you that brightens every dark corner in your life. It’s warm and reassuring. It feels safe, but at the same time it’s one of the scariest things on this earth. It’s a wonderfully heart-breaking contradiction that doesn’t make sense at all. Love is endless, so I refuse to believe you are only meant to truly love one person. Us teenagers, we fall in love over and over again. It is mostly true, we are naive, but that doesn’t make us incapable of feeling love; of loving another. We do fall in love so easily. Some of us, not so easily. We fall in love with little things, like songs or ambitions. We fall in love with the wrong people. It’s another part of living; learning. After a few broken hearts, we realize what is the difference between loving someone and being loved. After someone who truly loved us lets us go for our happiness, we will know. We will realize that what we had with them was real. It was so real, so good, that we wont settle for less anymore. We will look past those empty promises. We will be unhappy for a while. We’ll feel lost in this world, but one day I hope someone shows you there is another chance of happiness. You’re first love isn’t your last. Love last forever. You can love your first love always and still fall in love with another. Loving someone and being in love aren’t the same. In love, is what makes you feel warm and safe. We will fall in love again with someone who will fall in love with us as well, and maybe this time will be the last. We will know when we see the same look in our eyes in theirs. You don’t need to be grown up to feel love. If it’s meant to be, it will be. No one knows how you feel, so no one can say you aren’t in love. They can’t say you don’t love someone. They can’t use your age as an explanation. Only you can. Love is Love. It is what it is, but don’t rush into it. If they are in love with you now, they will be in love with you in 3 years, in 10 years. Don’t rush. That’s what makes our parents, our authority figures think we are naive when it comes to love. We are impatient. Teenagers don’t want something this good to slip away, but if it’s really here to stay, it will. So teenagers in love out there, I believe you, and I am happy that you found love regardless what people say, but listen to me; don’t rush love. Get married when you are ready, when you are truly ready. Hold it off until you know, until it is right. You will know.

I am a teenager, and I have felt love. I have been in love, and I have been broken to pieces. No one came to my rescue to help me pick up the pieces. I did it on my own, and I became stronger. I’m stronger now knowing my first love isn’t my last. I'm not sour anymore about love, and I'm not scared to fall in love again when love finds me. I'm not searching for love anymore, and my world seems so much brighter.