The other day in class, we were discussing our panels regarding our argument essays. As the relationship panel began to tell us of their paper, a girl had chosen to speak of how this generation has decided that relationships have begun to decline due to the phase of "talking" and "hook ups."

This phase is one that always makes people comfortable, but absolutely terrified. This is a place where you are acting as if you are in a relationship, without the title. Although it's the label of being girlfriend and boyfriend that gives one of reassurance and the knowledge of their commitment to them.

Those ideas have become some of the scariest things to some. Due to that talking stage, and how this generation has been one to do "hook ups" more than others, it has screwed peoples values. People have become opposed to the idea of their significant other is worth trusting and investing time into them. But how are you to continue if that tension is between the person you supposedly love?

But on the other hand, there are others that seem to just jump into relationships and skip really getting to know one another. I find that so mind boggling, due to how different people can be okay with being with someone they do not truly know and still say that they love them.

So many different perspectives, and all I really wish for is that I could turn the clock back to a time where people could be trusted and love was a word with true meaning. Where people would just look into someones eyes, and they just knew that they were each others ride or die.