One of the purest, most genuinely freeing things in this world is love. Love was, at one point, thought of to be a modern, Western invention, though we all know now that's not the case. People have been falling in love since the beginning of time, it's not something that can be controlled. A person doesn't get to choose who they fall in love with, only how they handle it. Love has always existed as an element that people try to control and change- arranged marriages, marrying for social status, and creating laws to prevent people from loving freely. There has always been a leash tied to the concept.

Marriage, in some places, continues to be fundamentally based on things other than love. For the most part, however, love is all that matters in a modern marriage. What's shameful is the fact that many of these marriages are only based on love for a short while. People are married just to be divorced in the next ten years, yet they can be married legally without hesitation, because at the time, they are in love. Historically, marriage was not a fairy tale object, but rather a way to benefit the family and their reputation.

Now, more than ever, people wish to marry for love. However, now more than ever it's restricted. This as a concept is incredibly strange. Thousands of years ago, love was seen as a sin, and isn't it scary how now, even after all the changes and wars and hate the United States has gone through to get where it is today, to gain human rights and equality, we still attempt to restrict one of the most natural, free flowing feelings to ever exist? Humans have yet to come to the realization that you can try to convince yourself it's a disease to love in a way that's 'outlandish,' but you were born loving who you love, right? The way you love is proper, between a man and a woman, like it's meant to be. Any other way is foreign and terrifying and not the way God wanted it to be.

Well, that's just too bad. Love is love, and no matter who you are, no matter your status or your beliefs or how entitled you believe yourself to be, you cannot control that. Believe what you want, but keep quiet. All of us were told to say nothing if we have nothing nice to say, and if you haven't been told, there you go. Chances are you are nowhere near as entitled as you think you are, and surprise, you don't rule the world and you certainly do not control human emotion. Humans are humans, feelings are feelings, and each feeling and emotion we come in contact with is totally and completely natural. Regardless of whether you believe it or not, love is not a disease. If it's not a disease for someone who loves conventionally, then it can't be wretched for someone who loves in a different way than you do, unless of course hypocrisy is all of the sudden widely accepted. Love makes you happy, love is an inconceivably wonderful feeling, and if you are someone who is willing to stand in the way of somebody's happiness due to your own selfish discomfort, think of how you would feel if someone tried to take you away from your significant other, and try to be the better person.