Young Love: The beauty of it.

When we are young, our world is very small. Selective people, selective friends, our daily life, and that's about it. Life goes on, until your train of life is derailed completely in the most beautiful way possible.

Ever since we are children, we are taught to do everything. We are taught to walk, to talk, to swim, everything. But not love. Nobody teaches us to love, that just....happens. It's almost like we were made for love. Everything in the world revolves around it and it's safe to say that love is the strongest thing in the world.

One day in school, you just come across someone who is perfect in every single way for you. It's like they were made for you. And suddenly the small regular life that you had shifts entirely and this person becomes your entire life. You do everything you can to get those extra 5 minutes of conversation, because all you wanna do is talk to that person forever, you never run out of words. The butterflies we get, oh dear. That in my opinion is the purest form of love we give and get, because we don't even understand it yet. You're head over heels for this person and nobody can tell you otherwise, everything just feels, easy. You experience the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. Before this, all of the songs you listened to were just songs to you. But now it feels like all of those lyrics remind you of that person. Every word you hear. Your heart feels so full of love. You meet this person. Everything before that, nothing. Nothing else matters. You look at them like they're the only thing that will ever matter to them in life and maybe they mean it right then and there. You rest your head on their shoulder and suddenly everything makes a little more sense.

We have no perception of what pain is of any kind. We have no idea what's ahead in life for us because our world is so small, and we're so happy in that small world of ours. Perhaps that's what makes it so special. Not knowing what's coming, so you only focus on the now. You don't have your life planned but you make space for this person because you make them your entire life. Everything revolves around them and nobody can tell you otherwise. Your heart is so full of them you can hardly call it your own.

"I loved her not for the way she danced with my angels, but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons."

~Christopher Poindexter

Everything feels like a fairytale in teenage love. This type of untainted love only comes once. Before you know what pain is, before the ways of life get to you. It feels like a fairytale when you're in it and it feels like a dream you can't remember when it's over. Like a book you don't remember you read, a meal you do not remember you had. Nevertheless, just like that meal and the book, your first love made you into what you are today. It shapes you unknowingly just like the blessings you get and the lessons you learn. You will always carry a piece of that love throughout your life. In ways nobody knows. Why does this happen? The relationship is over, the time is far well gone, then why do we carry a piece of that person in our hearts so dearly. How can one explain this? What is this if not love and how is it then not the strongest thing in the world?

All logical reasoning is overcome by the feeling of love. A feeling not even the greatest of philosophers could put into words adequately, for it cannot be explained. The ways of the heart cannot be explained, other than saying it is complicated beyond our minds. How do we explain the butterflies we get when we see their name on top of a text you receive, how do you explain the feeling of your heart sinking when they say that it is not working out anymore? There comes the lowest of the lows part. Whilst reading all this, we might feel cringed out and might think it's stupid but we all know we have been there. been there where we traded our logic for this one person. They're probably not even in our lives anymore, yet we were ready to bring them the moon and stars once upon a time.

I wish that this was a feeling that could stay forever. The feeling of innocence, the feeling of being carefree and reckless. It feels as I have been reminiscing it for more than I have lived it. And that is a strange feeling. Once you realize where you are. How far you have come, it's a bittersweet feeling. The closest you will ever come to living that life again is in a dream. And unfortunately, you will wake up. You will wake up from that dream that felt like heaven because all you can do now is, remember. Remember those times when all you woke up for was to go to school and see that one person. To walk with them, to just look at them with every ounce of love you have. You wish the person could feel this feeling. The butterflies you get when you see them. The way your face lights up when your hear their name. And that's the most beautiful part about young love, they feel the exact same way towards you. Same butterflies, same smiles. That's what it's about, I feel. This feeling never decreases. It just keeps on going up and up till you reach a point where your existence would make no sense without them and here, is where life takes over.

One of the saddest things in life is things ending when they should have lasted. But it's a necessary hurt. Because like the love that shapes us, the pain does too. When we grow up, reason takes over and that unconditional love, becomes conditional. It vanishes and you are changed for good. Life takes over in a way that you are not a child again. It's heartbreaking that this change is absolutely necessary for you. The world is a cruel place and love is your home. It's one of the reasons why loving people get hurt the most. They are like balloons filled with love floating in a world full of sharp edges. The worst thing life can do to you is strip of of the love you have. Life is worthless without love. Love is worth fighting for. It's worth everything you can ask for because it will demand it. If you have found love consider yourself lucky. It takes courage to love. Love usually lasts forever, it's the other circumstances that change. You can never un-love someone.

Love is what kills you and keeps you from dying. Here's to young love. The purest form of love one can experience romantically.