L. O. V. E.

With Valentines day just about a week ago, I've thought a lot about junior high and the love aroma that surrounds the school at this time. It seemed to me that as soon as I first stepped into the junior high walls of Fairfield, love was in the air. When my parents were growing up they said that their junior high experience was so much more different than mine is. Society, it seems, has made sure to portray that your growing up experience isn't worth living. Young people are wanting to grow up so much faster than they can help. The practical teenage questions are always “Who are you going out with?”, Who do you like?” and so on. It's always about who's hooking up with who, who cheated on who, etc. And then when it comes around Valentines Day everybody enjoys going extremely overboard on that one day for love.


Yes, the world changes, but I wouldn't think that after twenty years, people wouldn't have that much of a change too. When my parents were young going to junior high meant learning to them. Of course boys and girls were involved with each other, but that wasn't what going to school meant. Unlike right now, that's the only thing that occupy the teenage mind. Once you hit junior high all of the sudden hormones start running around like crazy turkey's on Thanksgiving. Us teenagers are trying to grow up way too quick. And when we all look back at these years, we'll laugh at the crazy thoughts we had thinking we were in love in ninth grade.

The week of February fourteenth, Valentines week, is the week of love. But when you're married or you've got a boyfriend, everyday you're supposed to show you love, right? But in junior high, Valentines Day isn't that important. Valentines, as we know, is for who you love. But if there isn't anyone special in your life at the time, it's the worst day of you life if you 're young. Which is why I think that the youngsters in this world need to lay off of growing up too quickly. It's not worth the stress.

As a junior high student, I wish that my fellow friends would quit trying to grow up at the speed of life. Junior high love is just a an extra worry for teens, along with all their school work and life itself. Lets live a little and quit trying to speed up life. Live life like you mean it and enjoy it!