Girl still young.

Saturday 31st January 2009.

Young and in love.
It's a phrase we often hear. It's a phrase that brings a smile to your face, requited or not. But is it actually possible?
I'm highly cynical on this particular subject or at least towards the approach. I'm very uncertain how the mechanics work of learning to love someone when they haven't even become an individual yet. Surely this is the age of discovery, learning and adventure towards yourself, so how can people throw the word 'love' around all over the place?
In my books love is time. If you can give a valuable amound of life... your life to another person and still actually 'like' them for it then that is a certain measure of love. If you can know and understand every fault of a person and not let your judgement of them alter, then that is love. If you could spend a year in their absence and your heart reamins beside their's, then that is love. So, please allow me to understand how you can be young and in love...
I'm not denying a young person's ability to love. If anything being young is the only time your love will be widely on offer. However, I don't think you can be young and 'in' love. It just doesn't add up.
But maybe it isn't supposed to...? Maybe this is the afe of discovery, learning and adventure - for love. Maybe my judgement is farthest from the trail by me trying to work out the mechanics of love. We could all hope and believe that love is the sole thing in life that doesn't work on mechanics.

Care to prove me wrong?
Girl still young.
x.