Are We Too Young For Love?

Listen up, fellow adolescents, there’s something that’s been on my mind, and it has become especially prominent with a certain February holiday on the horizon...

It seems like nearly every other day, I listen to/read on Facebook/hear about someone’s personal laments of love – that love is a fickle foe of man and that it has ripped their heart to such tiny bits that there is no point to it whatsoever – and this coming from people who haven’t even graduated high school!

Guys, what is the deal? Why are we, the bright youth of the future generation, looking at love with such cynicism? As the saying goes, “youth is wasted on the young” – and it couldn’t be any truer in the case of these people who waste their teen years by defaming love out of pessimistic loneliness.

What is love to us, anyway? Think about it. Do we at this age really completely understand what love is? We’re only a few years out of the “check yes if you like me” stage, for crying out loud! We are only just coming to understand the true weight of the words “I love you.” In my opinion, it’s going to take a few years of maturing before the concept becomes more comprehensible.

So, instead of wasting your time complaining about how you don’t have a ‘love’ life, go out and get a life! We have years to find true love, and it’s not any sort of race to a perfect happy ending. Chill out, please.

Maybe I seem a little angry, but with good reason. It’s just frustrating to see people who could be doing so much more with their time rather than wasting it whining. Get over it. You have a life to live.

I’m not knocking teenage relationships here; it’s the desperate need and consequent longing some have for them that’s the issue. Come on, you’ve got courses to complete, a dress or tux to buy, and contrary to what some seem to believe, you don’t need to find your true love before grad. Try finding a nice pair of shoes to go with your outfit instead!