my footnote to youth

post valentines message to everybody.

From the Eraserheads song “With a Smile”: ‘cause in a world where everybody hates a happy ending story, it’s no wonder love can make the world go round.

Youth has always been the favorite victim of that complicated, vague word we all call love. It is amazing though how such an experience, the tremendous feeling of loving somebody, can be so simple to the youth, to those who feel it for the first time. As the cliché goes, love is blind. Kids today sure prove hat saying as true. Amidst all the chaos and injustice happening at the present, those in love act like there is no other feeling in the world than blissfulness. It its love that gives lovers the feeling that nothing else matters other than their pure love, or so they call it.

Love to youth can be a do or die thing. The youth has always been the great defender of love, fighting for it up to the very end, without caring about the consequences of their actions. It’s very evident nowadays, kids doing anything for love. Some elope, some get pregnant to keep the relationship, some engage in premarital sex all for the sake of expressing their deep affection for the one they love. A lot of parents think that the love the youth believes in is not the type to be taken seriously. I honestly think they are just selfish – selfish in a way that they hinder their kids from being happy, even if it is just for a moment, just because they’re so caught up with the reality of reality.

To me, it is the greatest feeling – being in love. I still think and feel that love is still, and will always be the same. Call it pathetic, impractical even, but when you really think about it, love may be the only genuine thing that we can get from all the lies and deceitfulness in this world. My advice to adults then? Give love, the crazy, foolish, kind, another chance. It won’t hurt if they leave reality behind for a while and love like nobody’s judging them.