What Is Love?
Lilly Molini
A&E Editor
Today, love is just another one of life’s games that many play as long as it entertains them.
For some, that may just be the case.
For others... not so much.
In the teen world, many believe that a significant other is the key to happiness. Yes, they can create happiness in life, but they can also destroy it.
On the other hand, there are just as many high schoolers who believe that they will get their heart broken or waste their time with a relationship that young. What they don’t know is that they could find just what they are looking for in the person they see in the halls ten months out of the year.
They could also find a lesson to learn just around the corner.
Throughout high school, there are many valuable lessons to be learned. The harsh truth that many people aren’t mature enough to know what true love really is until later on in life.
Not to put a damper on any current high school love affair, but it’s said to be true that only two to three percent of high school relationships last until marriage.
With that being said, some students may find their Romeo or Juliet, though it’s more likely they find their Justin Bieber or Selena Gomez. Either way, most students in high school will experience love in some way, shape or form. From “Facebook Official” to a gym class crush are both forms of love.
Love is a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. This goes to show that a gym class crush is, indeed, a fashion of love.
High school relationships are what you look back on with tears in your eyes from laughter, or, in some cases, heartache. We all know that nobody thinks back to high school and remembers what they got on their math tests freshman year.
High school love can be one of two things: toxic or intoxicating.
Love doesn’t just have to be a game. Instead of just entertaining you it could end up being all you think about. Most of the people who believe high school relationships are worthless have only experienced the toxic side of dating.
Either way, it’s an experience - just like going out for a new sport or reading a new genre of book.
High school is all about taking risks, big or small, and making memories.
So who’s to say you won’t find your Romeo?
