Young Love.

I never really know what to write for these open topics. I sit on my bed in this little scrunched up position with my laptop placed on my thighs and think and think and think. I come up with nothing. Today I've got a topic. I'm going to write about something that I probably have no place in writing about, but I'm doing it anyway.

Granted, I am in high school. I've had a whopping total of two pretty serious boyfriends (around 10 months each..woah, I know, I know, try not to be blown away by the huge amount of time..), and I am currently as single as a forgotten piece of loose leaf paper that has been sitting at the bottom of your old backpack since the beginning of last summer. But I feel in this way, I can serve as a third party observer with a tad bit of previous experience.

Now, in high school, there is a bountiful amount of views on the idea of love. But what do we know? We've been on this planet for an average of 16 years and we think we've got the world figured out, love included.

Some say that love doesn't exist at all. But to them I say, I love my father and my mother and my sister and my brothers. I love my friends dearly. Maybe I wouldn't do absolutely anything for them, sometimes I lie to them (but anyone who says they haven't lied is the biggest liar of all), maybe at certain times I'd rather spend time with one of them over the other, or maybe I simply just get annoyed with them and can't talk to them for a while. Why should this be different in a relationship? I've never, not once, seen a difference of these things in a relationship versus a friendship. So does that count as love? Or no?

More often than not, high schoolers think that love does exist. And since we're so desperate to grow up and be mature adults, of course it exists in high school as well. Right? Honestly I think that love can very well exist in high school, but it depends on the people. Those kids that run around looking for love, trying to have that special connection with every person they remotely like and say they're in love with a person they've been dating for two weeks, (and let me tell you, those people annoy the crud out of me), no, they probably wont find love in high school. But those people who take things slow and casually work up to that level of caring, those are the people who can find it.

But then there is this aspect about high school relationships. Something about them is so crazy and beautiful and intense. What kind of adult couple can't go an hour without texting each other? What kind of adult couple goes crazy after two days of being apart? What kind of adult couple sneaks away at night just go sit by a lake and stare at the stars together? What kind of adult couple loves so blindly and recklessly that it consumes them? Well maybe they do, but I guess I wouldn't know. I've never heard of that in an adult relationship. Everything seems so mature and structured and boring.

But again, what do I know?