Love is a feeling. We feel love for someone that we care about. For example, the love we feel for our mom, our dad, our brother or sister, or maybe a significant other. I feel like the majority of teens forget that sometimes. Love doesn't necessarily have to do with a guy or girl that you really like, although it could, but it also deals with close relationships, including yourself. I think that's why most teenage relationships fail. If they don't love themselves first, how can they love someone else? You should be able to stand on your own two feet before getting in a relationship. That's why many people end up "heartbroken", because they don't know how to live on their own, they depend on another person for absolutely everything. A person can only handle so much. I don't want to say that adults look down upon teenage relationships, but I can't think of a better way to say it. I admit, I should've taken my elders advice when it came to life lessons, especially guys, but I didn't. The reason for that is because I didn't think that it would happen to me. No one ever thinks that it would happen to them. But personally, I feel like I had to go through everything I did to learn and mature into the person that I am today. I've gone through and I've overcome so many obstacles and I'm sure there are more to come, but I'm a lot more confident in facing them and facing my fears. I'm not saying that I know everything because I don't, I know I don't. There's so much more that I don't know about and I'm curious about what lies ahead of me. And that's what teens are that adults may not understand. We're curious and we learn better through experience, just like they have. You can warn us a million times about a certain someone or a certain something, but in the end, we're going to do what we want to do. It's not because we're rebelling, but because subconsciously we want to see for ourselves. I wish I could tell you everything I've learned from my experience, but I'm having such a difficult time putting it into the right words and like I mentioned, you'll end up doing what you want to do. That's completely fine. I just hope that you take my words in mind, learn to love yourself before loving someone else, learn to live your own life before sharing it with someone else, and remember that if a relationship doesn't work out now, it's okay. Everything will be okay and you'll learn that as time goes on. I know it sounds cliché, but it's true. We have a lot of years ahead of us so don't worry about something so small now, worry about your education and such. Being single is the perfect time to find yourself as a person and figure out what you want to do with your life, so don't worry about being "forever alone". Learn to be optimistic and take each day as it comes.