Love is really hard to explain. People have different ways of interpreting it and how it should be. It is confusing, scary, weird, hurtful, fun, wonderful, and a blessing all in one. So when you say you love someone (a friend, a family member, a lover, a soulmate) how do you really meant it? Each time you say it to someone it means something different. The interpretation changes with each person. It could mean more or less with others, or could even just be a cover up to not hurt someone.
And when do you know you are in real love? How 'in love' can you be in a place like high school, with peer pressure and no real example or knowledge of true love?
I really have no right to say anything because I am currently happily taken and I am only a junior in high school. But from my experience before I do remember some things.
I remember my first relationship. Freshman year. With an older sophmore who was just as inexperienced as I was. I remember feeling a little too young, but not exactly caring. I remember feeling great when I was with him. But I also remember feeling scared. Because deep down I knew he still liked someone else. I remember fighting a lot. I remember not being with my friends as much because I was afraid he would just hurt me if I left him alone. I remember not having the heart to break up with him because I always believed things would get better with time.
I remember the hard break up after a year and a half. Feeling crushed, betrayed, and heartbroken. Angered by the fact that I was right all along... and that he never loved me like he said he did.
I remember believing that love would always be like the movies. There would be the fateful meeting. The lovely times together. The big fight. Then the realization of the fact that they were meant to be together after all.
But love doesn't always work out that way. Especially in high school. High school is where it all begins. Or it usually does. It's where everyone loves, learns, and moves on with more knowledge, but still more to learn. That's what I did. And I'm still learning. Because love is a never-ending lesson.
♥au revoir
Can't say that everybody's story is like that. My girlfriend and I have been together nearly three years and she is three hours away from me, completing her senior year in high school while I am at college. Everything is perfect and she has been accepted to the school that I currently attend and will be attending in the fall. We are following in my neighbors' footsteps. They have been together five years, two of which were in high school, one at different schools and the last two have been down here at the school that I attend. He is set to ask her to marry him next month and she has practically already said yes. So basically I am saying that if you are lucky, you can grab the right one in high school, if not there will be PLENTY of opportunities to do so!
I feel bad for your first break up. I do think that you should have loved yourself more in that relationship. Let me explain and this could be great if you use it in your current relationship.When you meet someone, don't let the guy be the start and end of you. You should be secure with yourself first. He should appreciate you as you are. Don't compromise for him. You weren't seeing your friends which I think was wrong because they are a part of who you are. If he can't love you for you and always wants you to give it up for him then he ain't worth the time. Another thing, love in the movies, we always want, it but it doesn't exist. Our life with someone should be your own story,your man or woman should be real; not prince charming ;but who you love in real life. I think love is what you make it. Do not compare with the movies. Have you always wondered why the storylines don't change. There is nothing original about movie love. They are a marketing trick for naive people to continue watching the movies expecting prince charming in real life. I think your own lovelife can be far more interesting than the movies.