Everyone and their brother has something to say about the love life of a twenty-year-old. What it should be, what it shouldn't be, and Heaven forbid they fall for them. But what many tight laced nimwads (shout out to the nosey neighbors) don't realize is that...
Your twenties are the time to fall in love.
Whether you're head over heels for the person whom you will spend the rest of your life with, or just enthralled with the concept of the unknown, your twenties are the time to workout your heart. Your twenties should encourage freedom, happiness, and the continuous drive to be more.
You should be falling in love with so many people and concepts during this decade. Fall in love with individuality, and the art of being who you are, and bettering yourself along every step of the way. Fall in love with cities, with the diversity of people that you may have no common connection with -- love them anyway. Fall in love with characteristics, recognizing what you admire in people and how you wish to exemplify the same ideals. Fall in love with discovery, and the realization that you can choose to soak up information without ceasing.
Your heart should be full of songs, books, and inspiration. Never stopping to rest one day, or staying under the covers the next, your twenties are for you. They're for molding your heart and filling it with moments -- with love -- that will only propel you forward.
Your twenties are for falling in love with the memories you're making. For finding coffee shops and breathing in the atmosphere, then running in the park. For putting yourself out there, and learning what you're really made of. These are the years that you can dabble, run, and change your mind -- all in the same day. So why wouldn't you? Your twenties present you with an energy, an opportunity, and a soundtrack full of your favorite hits -- you can fall in love and never look back.
Your twenties are for falling in love with the promise of tomorrow. Your twenties are for falling in love with the notion that no matter what happens today, you can choose how you look at the future. You may cry and laugh and call your mom -- you may, hopefully, fall in love.
Your twenties are for falling in love with life. They're for sweet moments between friends, late evenings, early mornings, intense debate, good food, overwhelming confusion and simple bliss. You may be falling in love differently than the person next to you, yet you're falling in love nonetheless. Your twenties are for filling your heart -- it's up to you, and no one else, how you do that.
