Anyways, here it is.
Where is the Love
Love is one of the most frequently used words throughout one's lifetime, but what is it exactly? Is it forever? Does it break? Defining love is something near impossible as a teenager, but everyone has their own opinion and feeling on love. The entertainment industry seems to have the biggest influence on the idea and definition of love.
Love is a common topic in books, movies, music lyrics, and other forms of entertainment. The industries paint a perfect picture of a boy and a girl falling madly and deeply in love and everything ending happily. The feelings and penetration of love have been tainted. The perspective of it has been set in one's mind to be similar to a movie. There is one exception: the Bible. "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves. Love never fails" (1 Corinthians 13:4-8) These verses clearly define love and all of its boundaries; it is what one should base love off of, not movies or books or songs. Though we can relate to these different forms of love presented to us in several ways, the type of love that comes deep from one's hear is the love one should strive for. A movie that has projected one of the biggest bases of one's opinion of love is The Notebook, based off of Nicholas' Sparks' famous romantic novel. "The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds," is a thought written in a letter to Allie, the love of Noah's life. Although this movie is an example of the decided definition of love according to the entertainment industry, it contains several quotes that open one's heart to love and shows what it should be, this quote being one. Everyone searches for love, someone to spend the rest of their lives with, and grow old together, someone to bear children with, establish firm trust and loyalty with; everyone deserves love.
Love is developed at a very young age. As a child, one depends on someone to love, provide, and introduce the feeling of love. Children love because that is all they have; they can only love to show their appreciation. Although they can voice opinions, they cannot show physically the deepness and meaning of their love because they simply don't understand.
As children grow older, they develop a theory and meaning of love; and as an adult, love is fully understood. Do adults really have a concept of love? Do they truly understand the meaning of love? With the divorce rate being at 36%, it does not seem that way. Love is something not meant to be taken lightly and many teens and young adults dive into the feeling of love simply because they believe they have achieved it or found it. These age groups have been persuaded to believe that they have fallen in love when instead, they are in love with the idea of their relationship being love. Thank the entertainment industry for the blunder of blemishing our minds with these fairy tales of happy endings.
Love can lead to marriage, marriage lasts forever, or at least it is meant to. So why does one allow someone else to paint a picture of a general feeling of love? Love is a feeling, a state of being; it is something that one decides for them, not the world. It is said that one can tell when they are in love, so trust the heart to guide you, don't depend on movies, books, and other silly nonsense; decide for yourself.
So I can find plenty of errors among this paper, along with several things I would have worded differently, but hey, this was junior year = 11th grade = bad writing : P
but good for back then : P
I still agree with this paper entirely, though I feel I could argue it better now : P
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