Thursday, October 15, 2009

Love?

I find it funny that people can say things like

"I love you forever so so so much baby"

"can't wait to see you again! my darling"

"I love you more than you think I do, I love you for who you are, not what you look like, what you say, but what you are."

"I can't survive another day without you, I really can't. Day after day I miss you more and more, I'll still love you no matter what, forever."...

only after abt 2-3 months of a relationship. I don't understand at all.

these were real phrases that people actually said. (obviously i won't write who it was). And although I sympathise a lot with the pain they go through, after a break up, I don't understand that she "can't survive another day."

Maybe I'm being too literal and thoughtless. Perhaps it was what she really felt at the moment (if so, I don't understand). Perhaps her hurt was so deep that she used metaphorical language to express it, albeit sounding a little dramatic, but let's not judge people's hurt. (that, I understand.) although.. a skeptical voice in me proclaims "how do you know someone for who they are, when it's only been 2 months? and how can you love someone for who they are if you don't know WHO they are? note : 2 months is hardly enough time to know a person in and out.

Perhaps I'm being too judgemental. I'm a teenager as well, and I too have known puppy love, crushes, and being crushed. I too have known what a blow it is to one's pride to be broken up with, or to be left for someone else. (although, interestingly, i have never been stood up for a date.)

But..what I really really don't understand..are the mushy mushy posts! True, that the first days of love are always heavenly, no fuss, everything is perfect, blissful, halcyon. I have often smiled to myself at the beginnings of a relationship, feeling that the birds sang sweeter, the grass was greener and everything in the world was lovely.

But surely...that isn't enough to be love?

and even less, "love forever".

I do not judge. They could be really in love, or it could seem like love to them. Either way, it comes from the heart.

but i still don't really understand.
Till today, I have not said "I will love you forever." Am I the only one?