Can a Teenager Love?:

An Essay about Love

Cassie Seidel

Pine Point

English Class

4/27/11

                 Love is a complicated thing to understand. The way a guy can look into a girls eyes and say, "I love you" is especially complicated. It is very easy to lie about love. If you really love the person, you shouldn't have to say, "I love you" the person should just know that you love them and that they love you right back.

                Although most fairy tales show a boy and a girl instantly falling in love, I believe that love doesn't just happen, you have to grow into love. You can try and try again, but it is most likely that you will not fall in love with a person wandering on the street. You don't know the person until you've stepped in their shoes and walked around in them. It is easy enough to like someone, but to evolve a "like" into love is a whole different story. In the play Romeo and Juliet the characters fall in love immediately. A kiss can not destine death. Juliet, a young girl by the age of 12, is almost like an item waiting to be sold to any young man who has a more than a penny in their pocket. She might "love" Romeo because he is the one man she could not marry. Juliet may like Romeo, but love is just going to far. Love takes much longer than an night to multliply and prosper. Fairy tales and Shakespeare say love can happen at first sight, but I disagree.

                A couple that I know to be in love are Brian and Kaye-Leigh. Before Kaye-Leigh even knew Brian, she was sexually assaulted by her boyfriend and got pregnant. She did, however, decide to have the baby, no matter what consequences came, because she thought abortions were wrong. During her pregnancy she also had gallstones, and she almost didn't make it. She did though, and now she has an exquisite 3 year old child, whom she loves very much. After Kaye-Leigh met Brian, it was hard for her to trust anyone, so she had to grow into love. She found Brian to be loving and caring, and he loves her child as much as he loves her. That all that Kaye-leigh needed was love. Love for her and her child. They are now married happily and living in Groton.

                 I believe that if you are in love, you also must be best friends. If you grow into love, it is most likely going to be with your best friend. Friends know you from the inside out, and so should the person you love. Friendship and love are almost the same thing. The only difference is, love can last forever.