Worthless Love?

Many a time, people of all ages, races, and genders have wondered if teenage love is worth it.

“It won’t last,” they say.

“It’ll be forgotten,” they say.

“There’s absolutely no point.”

Is there?

In their late twenties, early thirties, people often want a relationship to find someone they can spend the rest of their lives with. They want support and guidance and being able to reciprocate that.

College is the short time between high school and real life. Emotions are changing. The first serious relationships begin to blossom. Yet the students still have that dream of finding Mr. or Miss Right, to love truly, madly, deeply. But real world responsibilities do start to sink in eventually, that truth that pulls the poor students away from their goals and in a nine-to-five job that they hate. A few will be lucky enough to find their soulmate and live happily ever after. Most end up diving into the deep end without testing the waters first.

And so comes the teenage love, and just the teenagers in general. The heads that should be in the books are lost in the clouds. Their young minds tell them that they are invincible, and anything can come to them with just a bit of work. And yet, teenagers tend to not stay serious. They tend to goof around and act like idiots. Even the teenagers with the highest IQs can act stupid occasionally. And they carry that mentality into love.

Love to a teenager means having that “certain someone” that you know you can depend on just slightly more than your best buddies. Love is the feeling of growing up and separating from authority by having one person to share it with.

As for the relationships, most don't last. Some don’t last longer than a week, some last for the duration of high school. A select few continue through college and into the ideals of a twenty- or thirty-year-old. Most, sadly, do not. Does this mean they don’t count?

That depends on your personal definition of whether a relationship counts or not.

In a teenage relationship, it really isn’t about your future together. It isn’t about the past. Teenage love is all about the present, what is going on here and now. Teenage love makes you forget worries, forget past experiences that hurt, forget future troubles. Even if it is just for that one second, teenage love is an entirely different kind of love. Teenage love helps us grow as a person, it teaches us how to laugh like there’s no yesterday and cry as if there is no tomorrow. It gives us a small push in the direction of adult life, and the pain as well as the joy that comes with it.

So now, ask yourself: Do you think teenage love is worth it?