“How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet
"You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh”
 A.A. Milne

You see, what I don’t understand is how someone else other than yourself can determine if you’re in love or not. It’s not possible. I don’t feel that you have to be a certain age to fall in love. Nor do I feel that it has to be a man and women. It’s completely and utterly up to you. There is no paper saying you have to be 25, or 19 years old to be able to understand what love is. You feel that on your own.

A classmate of mine asked me if I was in love, after I said yes he said “no you’re not” , yet he knows nothing about me, my relationship, my feelings. I simply responded by asking “how do you know?” and he said “you’re too young to fall in love.” The fact is you can’t just look at someone and have the conclusion that they are or they’re not. Then I found out that he’s never been in a serious relationship, nor felt love for anyone other than family. You can’t assume and say someone else isn’t if you’ve never experienced it. That’s like someone breaking their leg and another person who’s never broken a bone say that it doesn’t hurt.

So what is love? I wouldn’t be able to tell anyone what it is, you would have to go through it to understand. But the feeling is phenomenal. It’s like you have a best friend and a lover at the same time. You get those butterflies in your stomach; you catch yourself smiling all the time for no apparent reason, and every time you’re with each other you just want time to stop. My parents got married pretty young, at the ages of sixteen and nineteen and they fell in love with each other instantly. They married a month after being together, and thirty-five years later they still feel the same exact way they did in the beginning. You don’t have to be date someone for a certain amount either. You could be in a relationship for six years and never feel actual love for them. As oppose when you date someone for a year and feel so much affection. Not saying that you can only fall in love once, but for you to understand what love is.

It also annoys me when people say they hate homosexuals. Most of the time, they don’t even do anything to those people. They just carry their life in a different way than the others. That seems to be a problem to many people and I don’t understand why. Just because they’re in love with same sex? I don’t feel like that should be such an issue. So I don’t see why it should bother so many people. If it’s not affecting you or your life than it shouldn't matter what anyone else’s does.