Love?

So, today is Valentines Day. The day of love, and happiness, and togetherness. The day that people in high school, at least, are all happy, in love, and gushing about how the person they are with is the love of their life. How they will be with them FOREVER. How cute they are together. Blablabla. You get the picture.


Well, in high school, do you really know the love of your life? Is your valentine really the one? Are they your soulmate? I think not. Personally, I think that love takes time, and maturity, and that is not really something that you have in your typical high school relationship. Love is based on a wide array of things. Things like trust, loyalty, character, and really knowing the other. You can't say that you love the other person, just based off the way that they look, or the way that you feel about them at the moment. Those looks will fade, and those feelings will die. When that happens, what is left? If it is really love, you love the person within. Not your feelings, or the way that they look.


Now, I may be a little cynical. I don't think that love is a common thing. I think that lust is a common thing. Lust is when you like the way the other looks. Love is liking the person underneath. Genuinely caring about the person underneath. Today, lust is more played up than love. People think that their lust is love. If you try to correct them on that, they get defensive, and say you are a cynical person. I prefer to think of it as honesty. True friends are honest. I appreciate honesty. So, why should I withhold the honest truth from you?


The lust that people feel gives them a high. That high lets them walk all over the place, in a happy little cloud. Holding hands, making out in public. Come one people. Your PDL isn't needed. (PDL= Public Display of Lust). That honestly bothers me too. I don't need to see you grope each other all over the place. It's not necessary. It's annoying for the rest of us. We don't need to see how much you "dig" each other. You can tell us, and that is perfectly fine. Shocking concept eh?


The thing with Valentines, or as I prefer, Singles Awareness, is that the PDL's are encouraged. Embraced. If you don't have someone to lust over, or to gush over, you are an unattractive outcast. Thrown out. An untouchable. How lame are you to not have someone to lust over for a weekend. You are just pathetic. You are made to feel like you are inadequate... how dare you not have someone?


Well my point is, we need to be careful how we label love. It may just happen to be lust. It may be fake. Try to be nice to those of us who are single, and don't have the whole world lusting over us. Until next time, there is one last question...


 What is love?