With Taylor Swift's song "Wildest Dreams" and its music video having been released to radio recently, many people, including myself, couldn't help but take a moment to realize how significant the lyrics to the song actually were-- so significant that it quite accurately describes how so many of us in this generation feel about love and relationships.

The first thing to do, however, is to take a glance at the music video.

Set in the 1920s, our very own Taylor Swift finds herself as a Hollywood actress filming a movie set in "Africa." As the production of the movie starts, she soon becomes attracted to her male counterpart (played by Scott Eastwood). As the movie becomes more and more developed, so does their relationship, and it ultimately becomes a romantic relationship. The music video then proceeds to show unscripted scenes of them together; you see them flying in a plane, kissing in the rain, and other classic and somewhat cheesy snapshots of romance.

However, as the viewer finds out, not only were they never actually in Africa filming, but at that at the premier of the movie, poor Taylor's heart is ultimately ripped out and destroyed as she realizes that her lover was married to someone else. The whole movie was, indeed, an act.

With the premier of the movie, the situation becomes extremely awkward, as she must now sit next to him and his wife as they all watch the "loving embraces" that are depicted in the movie that they worked together on. The heartbroken Taylor can no longer bear the pain, and flees the theater. Upon her departure, however, the man that she had fallen for bursts out of the theater as well, proclaiming his feelings for her without ever saying a word. It turns out that they had, unknowingly, never been acting in the first place. All of the talking and interacting was, in fact, coming from their hearts.

But sadly, it was too late and the damage had been done. To the male character's confusion and regret, he had to then watch as the woman he truly loved vanish into the night, never to speak to him again.

This leads me to believe that the entire song is being sung while Taylor is waiting for her taxi to take off. She is sadly and nostalgically remembering the relationship and how it was created, as well as how it was destroyed.

She doesn't stop the cab upon seeing him in the mirror, nor dare to look back. She knows that the possibility of them to continue on as lovers is slim to none. All she can do now is sing out her wish, a wish that she will always be remembered by him; that he will savor the good times they shared and forget the bad times, that even though they can never again be together, that he will think of her somehow, even if it's a wild dream of her standing in a nice dress staring at the sunset, with her cheeks rosy and her lips red.

This is what so many of us have experienced in our lives so far. Our relationships seemed to grow out of thin air, where we least expected it, and before we knew it, someone was in our arms. Take away the movie set and lions and picturesque views of nature of the Savannah, and you will find something rather similar in your own life. An experience filled with ups and downs, twists and turns.

Although most of us, fortunately, won't endure the pain of finding out our lover was actually married, that scene is definitely set as a metaphor for having to face someone we once loved being with their new significant other. Mistakes were made, things were said, the timing was off, and then you both find yourselves with other lovers.

The best we can do is wish, just as Taylor did.

We wish that they will still think of us or remember us, that although both of us may have found another, we still appreciate the moments we shared, and that even though we will watch each other drive away into the night, we may somehow, even in our wildest dreams, still remember.