How about "love"? Most teenagers go and see movies like "The Notebook", "A Walk to Remember", and multiple other romance movies, and start imagining a romance so sweet and true as those. I believe it creates a falsehood in the minds of us teens that all relationships are really not that hard, and can be fixed with the slightest flick of a wand...wrong! Relationships are like a job you enjoy. Yes, you love working hard for the benefits, but you're still sacrificing a lot of things for this "job."
So many teenagers feel like searching for a companion as perfect as the movies make men seem. HA! Funny how the chances of that happening are one in about twenty thousand...odds comparable to being murdered...no joke. So we read magazines, watch movies, and look for similar things or quirks about someone else that you just love. You reach high school, and everything is about so&so dating someone else every two weeks. Or you have those who last from freshman year to senior year, and you think, "how the hell did this happen to them, and not me?"
Easy...you have the same chance of being murdered in high school than you do in finding love. I'm not saying it isn't possible, because I consider to have found some myself, although as Jason Mraz said, "And it takes no time to fall in love, but it takes years to know what the love is." Those are very wise words, seeing as in high school you typically base your opinions off of those of your peers, as well as the media. Movies, TV Shows, even music influences the minds of young generations across the nations.
So, who do we blame for wanting love so badly so young? The media? Ourselves? Men who are incompetent? No, simply, we just don't point fingers. It isn't polite, besides.
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