June 2nd of 2019, 12:02am how many people have you met and have the courage to truly say that you love them? how many of those would you do the absolute most for them to remain in your life? today we live in a society where anyone will meet someone and constantly post pictures of their get away in California on their Instagram or post cute little videos of them cuddling together onto their snapchat stories but we all know that in about a month they won't be together anymore. We live in a world where the "clout" you get from the public is more important than your own respect. Now a day we tell each other that we care about someone but we don't tell them, they are important to you but you don't demonstrate it, you miss them but you don't talk to them, or you want to see them but you never make plans to see each other. I won't lie, I am 100% guilty of doing all those things, sometimes my parents go on and on about how in their time they would all hangout and listen to music, and everyone was out of their houses enjoying each others presence and thats all that mattered. I have had people that would send me paragraphs and paragraphs that they were so happy that I was in their lives and they never wanted to loose me, but crazy that those same people were the first to leave so fast that before I knew it I hadn't texted them or even crossed a hi with them at school in months. Im tired of constantly hearing the same thing, I wish we could all just take a moment and open ours minds up and realize what we say. I want to be about to look into the mirror or look at a picture of myself and be able to say that I love myself. I want someone that will love me more than I love myself, someone that will help me see and find new emotions and make me fall in love with the person I am when I am around them, because love is not just something you text at random because you want to fix a mistake love is not a I "like" you, love is something so much greater, by actual definition Love [ luhv ] noun - an intense feeling of deep affection. I think we all get caught up in wanted to be in love and we want to believe we are in love that we avoid all the signs that are placed right in front of us. Love is not the butterfly feeling you get in your stomach when you see someone, when in love you are so comfortable with someone it feels like you've known them all your life. but most importantly, and this goes to anyone who needs to hear it, learn to love yourself before you choose to be with anyone else, and loving yourself is not loosing ten pounds so you feel better, it is not getting your nails done every two weeks, or changing habits that someone didn't like that you had, its accepting who you are and being comfortable with the person you are. there is only one you in this world, don t be so hard on yourself and give all your love to you then find someone and give all that love and more. For the best of our society and our world lets spread more love, accept our differences, we all have our given time on this world, lets stop avoiding that message or waiting 10 minutes to answer because we don't want to seem " too desperate" and lets love ourselves, our friendships , our families, our community, our world.