I will not settle for some mediocre love. I want something that is beautiful, pure, and forever. I’m not looking to fall in love with someone who will break my heart or just settle for something because it's available. I guess I watched too many romance movies, read one too many love stories, and got too involved with TV romances for my own good. When I think of my future, I want to have someone there to share it with, but I will not have just anyone. I want someone who will hold my hand while we walk from the car to our front door, I want someone who looks at me and smiles when I wake up because they find me beautiful, I want someone who will be ready to take on the world with me.

I have looked forward to my future since I was little, always wanting to be older and grown up so that I could be in love, go away to college, and have a family of my own one day. This way of thinking is so uncommon in our ever expanding hookup culture, and this worries me. A number of men who are willing to take a girl on a date rather than swipe through tinder are dwindling. Yet I am the girl who holds on the hope that her perfect man is out there, and no he won't be found by swiping right or in a dingy basement waiting in line for some crappy beer at a weekend frat party. I want one who will be my other half. This is where the romance movies come in. I see a guy, and they aren't exactly my type so I write them off. I want to be the girl who moves to a small town with no intentions of falling in love, yet she does; it's never quite who they expect it to be with. It just happens. But realistically it simply won't happen. I just don’t give them the time of day, because I'm too focused on having an all-consuming love like a freaking Nicholas Sparks novel. That is what I want--the simple love, the easy love, the patient love, the kind love, love.