What's Love Got To Do With It?

Well, I haven't posted anything since the first post, so today I'm going to talk to you about: Love. Now, the love I'll be talking about is between two people, or interpersonal love.

Honestly, I don't believe in love. Don't ask why, I just don't. [Then again, I'm only in High School, so what the hell do I know?] I do believe, though, that people tend to get hit with sudden [and normally severe] cases of infatuation. The thing that separates the term 'love' from 'like' is most likely the intensity and duration. For example, love is said to last forever. When you like someone, though, it means that those feelings can change at any given time.

Have I ever fallen in love? Well, no. Though, I have been hit with two cases of infatuation. But infatuation, unlike love, tends to wear off after a given amount of time. Now you ask "Well, if you've never been in love or believe, where do you come off preaching about love?" Good question, but my rebuttal is: Everyday examples.

Now for high school love! Well, it seems that being part of a couple is in high demand for high school and even middle school. This saddens me slightly because it shows me that our society is becoming so dependent on the opposite [or same] sex that they yern for a partner at a young age. Honestly, how many middle school couples do you see getting married? I'm pretty sure that none of them do. And if, by some happenstancial chance, they do get married, it would be 1-in-a-1,ooo,ooo,ooo. Even high school couples getting married is hard to see. And if they do get married, they tend to get a divorce several months later.

I will admit, though, that I have actually wanted a boyfriend for a while. Then I got one. Oh my god, he was the cheesiest piece of shit. It was weird because he acted just like those boyfriends in the movies and on the TV shows. Right down to the neglect. He did all the things boyfriends were suppose to do: tell you they loved you, tell you you're beautiful, tell you you're entertaining and funny, and all those other comments. And that's pretty much where all the good things ended. I never got a birthday present from him other then a shitty poem he probably wrote in 5 seconds after he remembered it was my birthday. [Yes, you probably all are saying "What a meany, he wrote you a poem you should be thankful, blah blah blah." I never said I wasn't thankful. I just said it was shitty. D: My god, it was only 5 lines long and there were, like, 3 words on each line.] He never called me unless I brought it up. He forgot my phone number 4-5 times, and he wrote it down twice. He made false promises and broke them all. So typical boyfriend. And we broke up, twice. And after both times, he still tells me he "loves" me. Bullshit. If he "loved" me, then I think he would have tried a little harder. But whatever, I shouldn't be too judgemental. I don't live his life, I shouldn't blame him. Then again, the scars run deeper, but you people don't really need to hear about my emotional shit.

Nowadays, how many couples do you see together for more than 1o years? Older couples do tend to stay together, but for love? I can never really tell. I've never heard an older couple in real life actually tell each other that they love each other. Supposedly, they already understand this, so it does not need to be said. Younger couples tend to tell each other how much love they share almost every waking moment together. But these young couples separate in a matter of years or even months, sometimes even weeks. Now the reason for older couples to stay together is because they have high tolerance and tradition. I grow up in a fairly Asian-based society, so arranged marriages and traditions are held at high standards. Once you're married, you don't leave each other until death does you part. Well, that's nice and all, but even if the couple despise each other, they will always stay together because it is highly looked down on to get a divorce. So, as you can see, there doesn't seem to be any love. But, I suppose, there will be rare occasions where people will get together and stay together under a long duration of infatuation.

So love; alive or dead? Well, who knows. Maybe love does exist, but to me, it does not. Call me an 'emo' or an 'angsty teen', I don't really care. There's my two cents on love.