Love?
Alright, this is going to probably seem a little rushed because, to be honest, it is. I am writing this on a deadline in order to save a friend from making a foolish mistake. So, bear with me. A couple of nights ago, I was thinking of love, and specifically, the teenage form of it. Here is what I have to say:
Teenagers are an often misunderstood group of people. Will Smith summed it up with "Parents Just Don't Understand". Parents don't understand many things about us and we don't understand many things about them. Yet, they feel the need to impress upon us various beliefs. One such belief is that we are too young to love. Bullshit, sayeth I. Teenagers can love and it may be the purest form of love imaginable.
First, let me come out and say that all love is not the same. There are many different faces love takes. There is love between a person and his or her sibling, cousin, uncle, best friend, parent, nation, video game, stuffed animal, and girlfriend or boyfriend. In addition to these categories, love can be further split up into age divisions. Children, teenagers, adults, and the elderly are the four main groups I would divide love into, agewise. Anyways, my argument is that teenage love between boyfriend and girlfriend is the truest love ever.
Our parents, in the eternal crusade to protect us and insulate us from the big, bad "real world", would lead us to believe that love isn't achievable until you're a mature adult. But, if we were to wait until we were adults we would be missing out on the most enjoyable thing ever: teenage love.
Teenage love is simply amazing. I don't know why. My hypothesis is the emotions you feel are due to hormonal imbalances thanks to puberty. But still, jealousy, ecstasy, depression, acceptance, and any other emotion one can possibly feel is felt while being a teenager and being in love. The roller coaster ride, the thrill, that is what I think teenage love is. I can't even express in words how joyous the first kiss is. Yet this memory is bittersweet because you will never know another one. Or the stupidity and clumsiness you feel everytime you hold your special person's hand. You just don't want to screw anything up. The heartache you feel when you go a day without seeing them. You think about them all day, wondering what they are doing, asking yourself why the haven't called you. Are they mad at you? You become scared. You don't want to lose them, ever. What about when they first walk in your door for something as unimportant as watching movies in your basement? You want to grab them and hold them because they are there to see you and both of you are people obsessed. I don't even know. There is just so much to FEEL, it can't even be written.
I can't say that adult love is impure, seeing as how I've never experienced it. I certainly want to experience it, with the very same person I'm experiencing teen love with, in fact. I just don't believe that it can be as glorious as my current state of love. When two adolescents fall for each other, all they have on their mind is each other. Twenty-four/seven. Nonstop! And the feelings are always changing. It's kind of sad actually, knowing that it will never happen again but that is why you have to stop and take it all in every once in a while. But adults have too much on their minds to be solely devoted to their significant others. We teenagers, we have very few responsibilities. We are free. Free to live life. Free to love. That is why teenage love is the perfect love.
Sorry if this is repitive or rambling or choppy or anything else that could go wrong with an essay. This is an emotional piece for me, it's a first draft, and it's fucking late. Take it for what it is; my jumbled thoughts are the truest writing I can possibly do.
Teenagers are an often misunderstood group of people. Will Smith summed it up with "Parents Just Don't Understand". Parents don't understand many things about us and we don't understand many things about them. Yet, they feel the need to impress upon us various beliefs. One such belief is that we are too young to love. Bullshit, sayeth I. Teenagers can love and it may be the purest form of love imaginable.
First, let me come out and say that all love is not the same. There are many different faces love takes. There is love between a person and his or her sibling, cousin, uncle, best friend, parent, nation, video game, stuffed animal, and girlfriend or boyfriend. In addition to these categories, love can be further split up into age divisions. Children, teenagers, adults, and the elderly are the four main groups I would divide love into, agewise. Anyways, my argument is that teenage love between boyfriend and girlfriend is the truest love ever.
Our parents, in the eternal crusade to protect us and insulate us from the big, bad "real world", would lead us to believe that love isn't achievable until you're a mature adult. But, if we were to wait until we were adults we would be missing out on the most enjoyable thing ever: teenage love.
Teenage love is simply amazing. I don't know why. My hypothesis is the emotions you feel are due to hormonal imbalances thanks to puberty. But still, jealousy, ecstasy, depression, acceptance, and any other emotion one can possibly feel is felt while being a teenager and being in love. The roller coaster ride, the thrill, that is what I think teenage love is. I can't even express in words how joyous the first kiss is. Yet this memory is bittersweet because you will never know another one. Or the stupidity and clumsiness you feel everytime you hold your special person's hand. You just don't want to screw anything up. The heartache you feel when you go a day without seeing them. You think about them all day, wondering what they are doing, asking yourself why the haven't called you. Are they mad at you? You become scared. You don't want to lose them, ever. What about when they first walk in your door for something as unimportant as watching movies in your basement? You want to grab them and hold them because they are there to see you and both of you are people obsessed. I don't even know. There is just so much to FEEL, it can't even be written.
I can't say that adult love is impure, seeing as how I've never experienced it. I certainly want to experience it, with the very same person I'm experiencing teen love with, in fact. I just don't believe that it can be as glorious as my current state of love. When two adolescents fall for each other, all they have on their mind is each other. Twenty-four/seven. Nonstop! And the feelings are always changing. It's kind of sad actually, knowing that it will never happen again but that is why you have to stop and take it all in every once in a while. But adults have too much on their minds to be solely devoted to their significant others. We teenagers, we have very few responsibilities. We are free. Free to live life. Free to love. That is why teenage love is the perfect love.
Sorry if this is repitive or rambling or choppy or anything else that could go wrong with an essay. This is an emotional piece for me, it's a first draft, and it's fucking late. Take it for what it is; my jumbled thoughts are the truest writing I can possibly do.