Colombian novelist, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, met the love of his life at the age of nine, but it wasn’t until after Mercedes Barcha finished school that they ended up together and were married for 41 years. I read many novels from him, and one day in 10th grade I was told to research him where I found this little fact. At such a young age someone has already met the love of his life, he was already in love which is something that we spend our whole lives searching for. I always wondered how that was ever possible, to know by such a young age who is the love of your life before you even begin to discover yourself. All love stories are epic, and they are all riveting to hear, but that’s why it’s called Love. If love can be found at such a young age then it makes me believe in that as I grow up.
At the age of 14 I felt like I met the love of my life too, and some people may think it's crazy because I have yet to experience life. I'm now 19, but since five years ago, I have been in love with the same guy.
We met when I was 14, we dated a little over two years and we parted because we were young and naive. I spent the last year of high school and my first year of college as a single woman. I discovered a lot about the kind of person I am and what I deserved to be treated like as I talked to guy after guy. I made friends and I made lovers, I had crushes and I had jerks who wanted nothing more than one night dates. Yet every night I knew where my heart laid, and funny thing is, he did too. I'm not sure what love is, but it sure does feel like love when he is the only person that I can define love to be. When I was in elementary school, I was always so confused when the students in my class already knew what they wanted to be, What career path they have chosen. I'm a sophomore in college and it wasn't until the end of my first year in college where I decided to be a physical therapist. Who knows, even later down the road I might change my mind again. There is so much stuff in my life that I'm not sure about, but I am sure about one thing and it's the love I have for him.
It's 2016 and we are back together, Nathan and Haley Scott style as I like to describe it. There are second chances in life and there are second chances in love and I'm taking that chance now because it's here and life is short to keep holding your feelings away from those you want to know. Life and love have a way of figuring it all out for you. It has a way of piecing all the puzzles back together.
