At the age of five, life is simple
We cry at the most simple things like not getting to buy your favorite candy
We had no clue about love
All we really cared about was playing with our toys and getting to watch our favorite shows on TV
This is as simple as life gets
At the age of ten, life becomes a little more complex than we thought
You have friends who talk about you behind your back
You become judged in school for just being yourself
Your definition of love is puppy love
Love is carefree and you feel butterflies all over
Life is sleepovers with your best friend during weekends or holidays and staying up until 4am
At the age of fifteen, life gets more overwhelming
You found the pain of losing friends a little bit too familiar
But you found someone you knew you’d call your best friend for a very long time
You got your heart broken by what you thought was love
Love for you was getting your heart racing every time you saw them in the hallway
You were just in love with the idea of love, but you didn’t know it at that time so you called it love
School overwhelms you with pressure as you’re going to be in College soon and you have to decide your future
At the age of seventeen, life gets real and confusing
You’re off to your first day in College and you don’t know absolutely how to fit in
You absolutely love the idea of a fresh start and yet the idea terrifies you to your very soul
You found new friends but you seem to not belong
Love gets confusing as you don’t know if you deserve to be loved
You have discovered the familiar feeling of anxiety and nights fill you up with feelings of loneliness and overthinking
At the age of nineteen, life slaps you in the face with facts about life
You only ever needed one small group of friends to call your best friends for life
You have come to realize that no family is ever perfect and sometimes your parents’ marriage doesn’t work out either
You open your eyes to the reality that sometimes love never works out the way you want them to
And you can’t ever force people to love you
And that you are not a reflection of the past, no matter what you have done
And lastly, the only love you ever needed was yourself and that is more than enough
You learn that love isn’t found but rather love finds you
At the age of twenty-one, life becomes extraordinarily beautiful even through all the bad days
You learn that you have to experience sadness and all those ugly emotions to get to the good part
You learn that you are deserving of love the moment you give love to yourself
Life becomes moments of indecisiveness about what the future holds but that is the beauty of life
Love becomes real and full of consistency, trust, and compromise
Love isn’t just an idea but love becomes something you choose and you choose them because you see all of your future in them
Life is still unfair but it’s real
You learn that you don’t always have to be okay and that it’s okay
You learn the beautiful masterpiece to let yourself feel human
Published by: Thought Catalog
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