Virgin, anyone?
SoOoO...
Today in first period I was overhearing this conversation going on between two girls right next to me. I vaguely understood what one girl was telling the other, since she was mostly whispering. After the "storyteller" left to her original seat, the other girl, who's pretty much a partner of mine in that Ceramics class, told me the basics of what her friend had come to tell her. She told me that the girl was in love with her on-again off-again boyfriend and that he "loves her, too." She told me that her boyfriend is always wanting to have sex, and although she doesn't really want to, she does it anyway. She described to me their relationship as one that has no actual substance; at least, from her descriptions, that's what you'd make out of it. Anyway, I was just really upset with the thought of how to this generation sex means very little. Society has greatly reduced the value of physical intimacy between lovers (and even more than that)-- what we call sex. I'm disgusted how sex is EVERYWHERE nowadays. Gosh, has anyone here watched the reality TV show Date Your Mom on MTV? For those that haven't, it's a show about a guy or a girl who's looking to date someone of the opposite sex (sometimes they feature a special for homosexuals). There are three different candidates that get to participate. The catch is, the boy or the girl that's wanting to find a date must first have a date with the person's mom. They base their judgment on who they want to date according to how their date goes with their mom. They do not get to see or meet any of the candidates 'til after the boy/girl has dated all three moms. Pretty cool, huh? Well, they get to ask the moms all kinds of questions about their son/daugther. It's unbelievable how the moms don't become appalled with some of the questions that are asked that, in some way, imply sex. Other times, they're just senselessly brazen, asking them in straightforward manner, without causing anyone to second guess what they're talking about. What I'm mostly stricken by are the quick, honest responses from the mothers. It's like nothing to them. What the hell? Since when has it been this way?? Sex is the most priceless gift you could ever give to someone you love romantically. (But, now romance has a new meaning. It's cheap now. It's shallow and meaningless.) I personally believe that you could really and truly love someone only once. Of course, you'll experience romantic love (called "eros love") with more than one (rare) person in a lifetime, but, true, transcendent love? I think it takes one person for someone to be able to love, with their one heart. Imagine having our hearts divided, all pieces having belonged to a different lover. How is your heart whole? How is it possible to give it to someone very special wholely, and completely, if it's been divided? If pieces of it have a past. Anywho... you imagined the illustrations in your head, right? Hopefully. Now, get this... Instead of the heart, imagine the soul. The soul is the essence and the root of our being, of who we are, of what makes you an individual. The Bible (many may not agree with me here now) mentions that sex is a spiritual experience created and done for the purpose of expressing love. It explains that when two are joined together in intercourse the souls of one another will then be shared, and become one, for a lifetime. Imagine now, believing this is true, having been with multiple partners. What will happen then? Your soul will be reduced to pieces, little worthless pieces. How, then, are you able to love the one you will love, the one and only, with your all? With all your soul? What would then be the value of your "gift," the priceless gift sex is? I can imagine why some people tend to feel incomplete and empty a lot of the time. If they've lived a promiscuous lifestyle, you can bet it's the hollow feeling inside the soul that cries it were whole again. These are just thoughts of mine (and more than that, I hope). I hope you read this carefully and consider everything I talked about. I hope this penetrates deeply inside of you, causing you to wake up if all along you've thought things differently, or lived the kind of lifestyle I apparently don't condone. Your future is in your hands. The what will be's, the what won't be's. Your present decisions are the controller of your future. No one else has access to managing that controller, but yourself.