The Love Experience

Our youth are brought up with a fluff idea as to what "true love" is. We've been brought up on Mickey and Minnie Mouse memoirs, Pocahontas power strides, Aladdin tales, and all around "happily ever after" stories- a genre that I categorize as The Love Experience. Not that this group is solely based on cartoon characters or Disney's representation of actual people; there seems to be a falseness behind what people (especially children) are fed today dealing with the topic of love. Certain music and movies help to cement the idea of "perfect love". These displays rooted in the mental of young people could prove to be a major let down later in life for the simple fact that a person's actual relationship history most likely will be nothing like what they've seen in the movies or heard in song. I wouldn't dare point the finger at movies and music on this case, because this subject in particular isn't one that necessarily influences the actions of youth in a negative way, but instead may provide a reality check for those in need.

Growing up we are shaded by demonstrations of what is labeled as "true love"-"the perfect relationship". With age, personal experience, and wisdom, most of us shed the dimness of our shades and come to terms with reality... the fact that true love may indeed be false or the perfect relationship might have more than a few dozen imperfections. REALITY CHECK!

And then there's school- high school in particular, and how it is also a part of "The Love Experience". I can only speak for myself and a few others on this recollection (so I will proceed to do so). In elementary and middle school there was an aura around the subject of high school- HS was among the elite, top notch places to be; where there was all types of people crowded shoulder to shoulder in the halls. There were lockers taller than the person who owned them, where you could plaster up pictures of N*Sync and Mariah Carey, there were legalized food fights in the cafeteria, smoking in the boys bathroom, and lipstick writings on the mirrors in girls' bathroom. The principal was strict and all the kids (no matter how nerdy) were cool because they were in high school-that's it. That's all they needed to say, "I'm in high school", and our elementary jaws would drop-the rest is history! All of this before we had even walked the halls of a secondary school.

Then I became a freshman and all of my past premonitions of what the wonder years would be like slowly began to fade with each day spent in that jail cell. There weren't any jocks- oh hold up, yes there are, but that doesn't matter because they come off just like the rest of us in here-there were no food fights, driving away for lunch, no early release for seniors, and more work. My grades dropped and so did all my hopes to be a part of the livest place on earth. All that I've seen on tv dealing with how wonderful HS is and how much juicy drama takes place, I know that I'm not missing much. I'm pretty sure most young adults feel don't feel the hype that they've been led to believe was plastered against the walls of each school. I've realized that no matter what high school you go to, there is a common thread between each of them. On the other side of town, the same things are going on at their local school.

The young public has been led to believe in two circumstances that wont necessary be anything like what they've been brought up to take heed in. The only way to surefire way to deal with the happenings is to develop wisdom- from The Love Experience.