Nov 28, 2005 19:33
This is going to be a ramble. I haven't decided what kind of ramble quite yet, but it will definitely be a ramble.
So the word love, right? Big deal. Love is such a huge deal to everyone. Everyone wants to be loved. Eveyone wants to have someone to care for. I used to think love was one of the biggest things that us as humans could find. And I still do, but I also used to think it was rare and hard to obtain and even harder to keep. As it turns out, love isn't hard to find at all. Love is really everywhere.
You love your friends. You love your family. You love your clothes, your ipod, or picture frames. You love this band but you hate that band. But who do you love? Everyone loves many things, but when it comes to a significant other or the person you're with, I think that love shouldn't be so hard to deal with. I don't think it should be such a difficult word to say or accept. You can love the way someone's eyes light up when you see them but does that mean you love them? You love their laugh, their smell, the way they do this or that, all of their characteristics, but does that mean that you love that person?
And love with another person romantically is such a huge deal I think because everyone wants love to be neverending. And I think that love has an expiration date. Unconditional love, no. Your family, the people you were born and raised with, you will always love them. I'm sure a part of you will even always love your old girlfriend or boyfriend that you loved at one time.
I don't know if I believe in forever yet. At least not right now. Actually, that's a lie. I do believe in forever. I believe in loving someone unconditionally forever. Your soul mate. Your other half. But I don't believe in a boyfriend or girlfriend that you dated for x amount of months being your soul mate just because they were the first person you ever loved. Because they weren't the first person you ever loved. You've loved before then. It's just the first love with an expiration date.
The Day You Started Dating - The Day You Broke Up.
I'm beginning to think that high school relationships put so much of an emphasis on love and relationships that we have it backwards. Who says that there's a set date when you start "dating?" If you know you care for each other and you know you are faithful to each other, then who's to say you aren't "official" or not "in love?"
I'm done for today.