The young and their restless search for love

Youth is about searching, life is about finding, finding out, that the search is never ending. All our lives we search for something that is perfect, that what makes you feel complete, makes you happy. After all, life is the pursuit of happyness.

We're too used to looking back and wondering mmm.... what could have, and there in lies the difference between the young and the not. The young live in the present, this moment is about certainty and optimism, this moment you're on the verge of a breakthrough. Right this moment you're gonna meet the one.

All you need to be is the "cool kid".

Young does not mean carefree, just the things you care about are different. Homework, being the "cool kid", not getting caught while doing the "cool things" and of course not being the smartest nerd. Great recipe for nightmares.

The young at times are not prepared to handle all of this, causing chaos in their nascent lives. Youth can be confusing, challenging and at times smothering. Love is what keeps youth alive, the hope is that they would find what they are looking for and a mere inkling of such, can infuse a lifetime worth of energy .

The young write about love, the experienced talk about the love they had/never had. The young talk about the king in all his glory , never forgetting to mention his love story. A story told so passionately, a story so enthralling , a tale so involved you'd fall in love.

Funny as it may sound the young seem to know what they want better than the experienced. The experienced have a way of complicating things, spiders caught in their own web, a web so complex even string theory couldn't claim to explain it. The young look for love, out of nothing else to do at times, at times out of being young.

The young define fashion when the experienced are too worried about getting outmoded. The young life is but a throw of caution to the wind, roller skating towards/away, against the wind. Amidst all, the young stand tall, less worried about living, more about how large.

Finally, youth is about purity of heart and sanctity of life. Every emotion is heartfelt and every effort sincere, every moment is a lifetime and every friend is dear. There are no materials there is no greed and if you've never felt this way, well, you were never YOUNG.

Not so long ago

Not so long ago, confused thoughts had you.
Not so long ago the dreams were still a reality.
Not so long ago kites were winter.
Not so long ago love was all around.
Not so long ago you wanted it all , you had it all.
Not so long ago you were younger.

Crazy as it may sound more than age experience catches up. You seem to have done a lot, if not all and this, precludes a lot of possibilities. The feasibility of dreams is like the dream of feasibility, comes and goes in the bathroom. Most certainly some materialize, almost certainly differently.

Dreams still come, no longer same. The preoccupied syndrome has them. Try thinking out of the box, I'm sure you'll spend ten minutes imagining "thinking" out of a literal "box". Doesn't matrix seem like a good explanation?

Let's talk about love. Keeps readers interested.

Back in the day love was romance. There is nothing like young love, is there?

"The girl two seats away is worth two detentions."

The Lisa Berlinis, the Winnie Coopers all part of the Wonder Years, all a phase of time. When 2+2 was a difficult ball game, you knew what you cared about. Two seats away, matters of life and death were discussed. One look was love another and you could die. Hero of the class for one glance? Love is crazy, so is youth.

(Apologies for the abrupt ending, it's not. Will update sooner. Stay tuned.)

Don't you miss it? Time to revisit some of those memories.

Unconditional love, unconditional quest for LOVE!