"They say were too young to love, but maybe they’re too young to remember" – Wiz Khalifa

When I “fell in love” in high school, everyone told us that it was just puppy love. I heard many things from many people.

“It won’t last, but enjoy it while you can!”

“It won’t last, so just get out before you get hurt.”

“No one knows how you guys feel, if it’s love, its love!”

Eventually we did break up, but as I look back on those times, I realize that we did love each other. That guy was my first love, but now a few heartbreaks later I believe that when you find THE love that everyone talks about, it’s a different kind of love. Back when it was puppy love, it was love but now I truly believe that I have found a different kind of love.

When I was in high school, I always wondered if I knew the guy I was going to fall deeply in love with, and eventually marry. Now that I am two years graduated, I look back. I knew him, I knew the guy I would fall head over heels for. I didn’t like him though. You see, people change. What we look for in a significant other changes. Our likes and dislikes change. The world is constantly changing. What some of us don’t realize, is that when everything else around us changes, we tend to change too.

In every high school girl’s life there is always that one guy friend. The guy that is always there lending advice, pushing her to do her best, telling her what she needs to wear on her first date. Most of the time the guy is head over heels in love with the girl, and frankly she has no intentions of their friendship going anywhere. In my circumstance, my guy friend was pushing me to date his best friend, and pushing his friend to date me. Although I was his best female friend, and they were best friends. Me and the other guy never hung out, talked or even really spoke to each other in high school or after graduation. Frankly, I didn’t ever see myself dating him. I had a short lived crush on him freshman year, and after sophomore year rolled around, the crush was completely gone.

Little did I know that when you burn out a candle, it can still ignite. Five years later, we are more in love than I believe we would have ever been. I can honestly say with a lot of praying, dedication and love between us, I have found my soul mate. The first day of high school, I saw him, I met him and we spoke a few words and moved on. Who knew that our paths would overlap five years later.

So when people say that you aren’t in love, or that it won’t last, don’t listen to them! They don’t know what’s in your heart….but sometimes neither do you.