When you are a teenager, you are told not to focus on relationships. You are told that they are a waste of time and in the end, you will get hurt. Of course of being teenagers we choose not to listen. They tell us we're too young to know what true love is but maybe they're too old remember what it is. Do they remember the butterflies in their stomach when they would hear their name? Or the chills they would get when they brushed up against them? Do they remember the exact moment when they asked them to be theirs? How they couldn't decipher whether it was a dream or reality? I do. I still ask myself every day if this is real? If this guy is real or just a fictional character created from the depths of my loneliness. But he's real. He's living he's breathing and he's mine. I'm not sure how long we will be together. If it was up to me, it be for ever. I may be naive and inexperienced, but our love is not. Our love is a beautiful thing and a gift from God above. But teenage love isn't about rushing into the future. It's about all the little things. It's the feeling of reassurance you get from laying your head on his chest and sharing his heartbeat. It's the chills you get down your spine every time he kisses you. The Flutter in your heart every time you call you babe, and the mini heart attack you get when he takes more then 5 minutes to respond to a text . It's about saying "I love you." for the first time even though you have no idea what love is. But that doesn't matter right now. What matters is you have each other. You need to cherish what you have and not take it for granted, because you never know how long it will last. Maybe a week, maybe a month, maybe a year, and maybe just maybe it will last forever. Young love plants a fire in our hearts. Sometimes the flames are low in need more of something to keep it going. Sometimes the flames are blazing hot and nothing can slow it down. But somewhere between the smoldering ash and the blazing fire is perfect harmony. Yes, it will be hard to achieve but it's not impossible. There will be times for you will feel as if the fire is inside you, burning bright. Other times, it will rain and your fire will go dim in the blackness of the night. But you must not abandon your fire. You must rebuild it. Find where you went wrong and start from scratch. Get new would a new matches and wait until the perfect sunny day. Then you can begin your fire again. Love is patient, love is kind, but love is also brutal if jot cared for properly. A true love is not something you can find in a Nichols Sparks novel. It may make you believe in love, but it won't find you love. That is something we all must do by ourselves. You could meet every man or woman in the world but that doesn't matter. God will bring love to you. When he believes you are ready, he will shine his light down on you and reveal your soul mate. It's not that easy though. You must put forth effort to. You must not go wandering for love aimlessly. so many people think that they can just go out and find the right person. They start texting someone they don't know anything about. They develop a crush, but in the end, thwy are the ones crushed. We put our feelings on the line far to often. We dive head first into uncharted waters and hope to find something magnificent deep down. But we don't. We find that once again we were played. We make mistakes, and being so young we never truely learn. But then the tables turn. We are so sick of the pain and tears that we just want to be alone. No lies, no tears, no yelling, no screaming, nothing. Just the mere silence of our broken hearts beating to the all to familiar sound of loneliness. Then and only then will you be fortunate enough to find what you've been so longingly looking for. You will be hesitant at first. Not sure whether to believe it's as good as it seems. It will start just like the rest. A mere infatuation with this new face. It will turn into flirty texts back and forth, hour after hour. You'll go to the movies to see if this could be something real. He'll be cute and flirty, and offer to put his arm around you. You'll reject him politely with a smile. After the movie, you'll sit outside the theater and just talk. He'll yell you look pretty even though you're just wearing jean shorts and an old lacrosse shirt. You'll look at the way he smiles at you whenever you hold his stare dor more then a few seconds. Then you'll finally stand up because your parents are there to pick you up. He'll slyly slip his arm around you and give you a hug goodbye becore you part your seperate ways. Then you'll get into your car and smile because you know this will be different from anything you could've ever imagined. You'll begin to text more often. He'll start to come to your lacrosse games to cheer you on. He'll wipe the eye black that smeared on your face and then blush because he so longingly wants to kiss you but doesn't know if you feel the same way. Then, he'll come over to your house. You'll watch Finding Nemo and as you're laying there next to him on the basement floor you'll cross your arms over your chest so he thinks you're cold. He'll get the hint, and offer to help warm you up. You smile and slowly inch closer to him. You'll lay there in complete silence with your eyes closed just listening to his every breath. You aren't officially dating yet, but in your mind you are. But finally the day comes.You're just lying there under a blanket fort watching the stars on a cold September night. He'll pull you close, then without warning he will kiss you. Your first kiss. Magical, perfect, amazing. Then he'll ask you to be his. Of course you say yes. And that's how it all began. Now you're sneaking your phone just to be able to send a goodnight text. You're dreaming about him 24/7 and you can't help but want to be with him every waking second. That's what teenage love is. It's the simple bond between two young naive people. A bond that will forever be imbeded in their sould. Teenage love isn't something that can be explained. It just happens! It's those moments when you fall to the floor crying because you may have just lost them forever. The feeling in the back of your throat as the tears drench your face. It's setting yourself up for a great relationship with no problems, but then facing many troubling challenges along the way. Sometime things won't work out the way you wished, and sometimes they will. But love is hard, ask anyone! There are the moments where you want to kill eachother, and the times when you are just so happy and content with life itself. So next time you go and tell someone they don't know what love is... don't. Everyone's definition of love is different. but in the end it is all the same thing. If you asked a young child what love is, they would tell you it's what makes them feel happy when they are sad. If you asked a teenager they would tell you it's the wierd feeling they get when they see that person look at them. If you asked an adult, they would say it's a very special feeling that you won't know until you're older. And finally, if you asked an elder what love is, they would say it's when they still talk to eachother like they did 50 years ago. How they still get nervous around eachother and how they've worked so hard to get to where they are. So yes, love has a lot of different definitions but to put it in simpler terms, love is this... love isn't always perfect. Love isn't a fairytale or a story book. Love is overcoming obstacles, faving challenges, fighting to be together, holding on, and never letting go. It is a short word, easy to spell, difficult to define, and imposible to live without. But most of all, love is the connection of two hearts beating as one for all eternity. And I believe that no matter how many years it may take us, we will all eventually find our one and only true love.♡
