Yes, I'm a millennial and contrary to your misguided belief, I know what love is.

The latter of the elder generations (most people 30 and older) love to tell us that we're too young to have truly experienced love yet and know what it feels like.

So explain to me how we're not allowed to trust our emotions and minds when they tell us we're experiencing love? Yet we somehow are allowed to vote on the leader of the free world and join the army at such a young age, but can't handle the concept of our heart making one person our entire world.

False.

Don't tell me that “experience comes with age”, because some people can go their entire lives without ever experiencing love. Others, can find it in elementary school and carry the flame until the day death separates them.

I know a couple from High School that started dating in 7th grade, they graduated in 2013 and are still going strong. If someone had told them at such a young age that they could not be in love because they were too young to understand the concept, they would not be the picture of proof they are today. So don't tell me love cannot exit because we're too young.

Although, do not mistake my words for saying it will always work out. Sometimes the wrong people find each other and in the end life has a way of correcting itself. But it does not mean they did not feel love and loss because they were too young for it to have been real.

Not all those that stumble upon love may find it on the first try.

However, we can take lessons from it and find new hope. The only issue seems to be that the latter of generations douses our hope in finding love because we "are too young to understand it at this age" whilst most of those who throw doubt our way go home to their significant others that they met in high school, or at a college get together.

What has changed so much in the genes of our generations from then until now that makes the older generation believe we are so much less capable than they of understanding love?

Because we do not have the strain of a war? Or an immediate world crisis? Oh wait we do! Or is it because we have so much technology now that we don't spend the same amount of time you did interacting with each other back in the day? When in actuality our technology has helped us connect more at a younger age.

We can talk, text and Snapchat the person we want to talk to all day, or late into the night if we want to; things you could never do in the earlier generations. If anything we might feel stronger love at younger ages because it's so easy to connect to someone who's not even in the same area code.

So don't make our already confusing emotional state-under the stress of school, work and balancing out the issues and economy- that you left for the next generation- any more difficult by telling us that the emotions that we feel are not real, and “we'll get over it." There are enough problems with depression and mental illness in our generation without being told that we shouldn't trust our own hearts and minds when we feel something towards an individual. Remember that just because you can’t fathom it doesn’t mean it is not real to us.

You may see us as children in your eyes still, but the world knows no difference in age.

If we're old enough to decide what degree we're going to pursue, or join the army, we are damn sure old enough to feel love and loss. Because it builds as we grow, and molds our shape just as much as our

education does. To have loved and lost is a tragedy. But too have loved and learned is a lesson in its own. Which we cannot learn when the ones we trust to guide us are telling us that what we feel is not real.