Outloud Magazine - love

Love in college can be painful. Sometimes in college you meet people
who aren’t ready to be loved. Maybe you’re not ready to be loved. You
may experience a heart break, or breaks. You may experience having to
break someone’s heart, or hearts.
But more than anything, I think love in college is beautiful. Love or
pain, the process of love is incredible. If you let love work you, it’s
going to push you to learn what it means to put someone other than
yourself first. It’s going to teach you how to soften your heart and
open it to someone else. It’s going to teach you that when it is masked
as breaking you, it is just testing you and building your strength. It
is going to give you skills that not only are used in relationships,
but also in real life. Patience, communication, loyalty, compassion,
independence, understanding, forgiveness. And here’s the secret about
love: you don’t find love, love finds you. So no matter how much you
say no to love, it’s still going to come around and catch you right
when you’re not expecting it. And that is, in my opinion, the true
beauty behind love.
The magic about love.
If you’ve found love in college, congratulations and cherish that. Be
true, be you, make it fun, make it purposeful, push yourself, let love
work you, practice balance and moderation, do love with meaning.
If you think love hasn’t found you yet, I’m here to tell you; Oh but
honey, it has. Did you know that 50.2 percent of America’s population
that are ages 16 and older are in fact SINGLE? But love in college
is not only found in romantic relationships. Fall in love with
your friendships, fall in love with your life, fall in love with yourself.
If you think you aren’t in a relationship, I’m sorry to tell you
that you’re wrong. You’re most important and everlasting relationship
is found with yourself.You are your most important relationship and to
have self-love is everything.
I’m definitely no love expert, but love is personally one of my favorite
verbs. Love conquers all.