I Love You

I haven't thought of something really good to write about for a while, and a random thought popped into my head today (thanks to the Facebook note I was writing due to boredom).

The question was something like: Don't you hate it when 15-year-old kids say "I love you" after they have been dating for only a few months?

I know that when you're younger, you think you like someone and talk to them for a week before they decide to ask you out. Then you're soooo excited, you talk to them every night on msn until 3am, and see them the next day at school to hang out and get to know them some more. Everything is so overwhelming because you're just getting to know this person and learn about their personality: funny, smart, cute, entertaining, romantic, energetic, etc.

You don't really know what love is, there isn't a set definition because there are all sorts of love. Love for your family, your friends, and now this new concept of love for your boyfriend or girlfriend. The dictionary itself just says love is an intense feeling of deep affection...so could what you're feeling for this person you've been dating for the past three months actually be love? You think so and out it comes, "I love you."

To be honest, I don't care if 15-year-olds are saying I love you, as long as they actually feel it in that moment.

Maybe when they break up a week from then they will realize as they mature that maybe what they thought was love was just a crush...or maybe they will end up being with that person for the rest of their lives and believing it was really love from the second they got to know each other.

I don't think their should be a set time frame on when two people say, "I love you," to each other. I do, however, believe that it should only be said if it is actually meant. Those three words that make such a strong and complete sentence shouldn't be thrown around casually or they will easily lose their meaning.