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I think it's amazing how some people perceive 'love'. Several people that I know of have different boyfriends all the time and they claim that they're in love. It's not that we're not allowed to love more than one person, but to say that you have fallen in love with someone within the period of 2 weeks is unimaginable. How is this love? Is this what they call true love? Even so, I doubt true love happens so quickly. I mean it can, I suppose, since nothing is impossible. But rarely...And the fact that they can go on to love someone else after being 'in love' remains even more of a mystery to me.

I know how people say you have to find the right person and by that they mean you have to get out there and meet more people. I don't mind meeting new people, but I don't want to date them to 'get to know them.' I don't want to 'confess my love' to someone who won't appreciate it. The kind of love I want is eternal. It's something that should be real and should be true, not just a spur of the moment thing. I don't mind saying "I love you" to someone, but I do mind if I'm not sure if you'll love me as much as I do. It sounds selfish, I guess, to want someone to love me just as much as I love them. But I'm sick of seeing people throw their love out to others and just have it given back a month later.

A soulmate isn't what I'm looking for - I don't think there's just 'the one' for all of us. Love isn't a brief thing - it can't just come and go. Because that's not love. If you can move on so quickly and jump into another relationship then there wasn't any love at all. As hard as this is to believe, I've always been sort of a hopeless romantic. Watching people run around giving their love so freely and taking it without cherishing it...it seems so sad. As if love isn't what it's supposed to be anymore. As if love isn't really love.