My thoughts on high school relationships

So lately I’ve been thinking about relationships and people and high school and whatever other crap that comes into my head. Over and over I reach the conclusion that no one in high school, myself included, is ready for a relationship. No matter how mature they think they are, no high school student is mature enough to handle a true relationship. No one in high school knows themselves well enough to know what they want from a relationship. I’m sure many others have reached the same conclusion. So why do we keep going? Why do we keep trying to date and have relationships?

I can’t speak for everyone, but I can tell you my reasons. I keep trying because I am a sucker for love. Love is a magical feeling that makes the giver’s problems melt away, and suddenly only the receiver’s problems matter. If love is mutual between two people, suddenly you’re left with two people with no real problems of their own, which equates to two very happy people. The problem is that at this age love can’t last. It was never really love in the first place, just an unnamed feeling with many of the same attributes but without the long-lasting, dedicated quality. When you experience this feeling, though, you think it is love because it acts so much like it, so you believe that, like love, it will last.

So why don’t I give up? I am, after all, looking for love in a place it cannot be found.