As they become toddlers at eighteen months, they start to keep their parents on their toes all the time. Soon they begin to walk. When they use the coffee table to pull themselves up to a standing position, their mother watches over them to make sure that they do not fall. Soon the twins look towards the door as a ding-dong echoes through the house. Their loving mother picks them up and carries them to the door to answer it. As she opens the door to a strange person, they cling onto her neck, knowing that she will protect them from any intruder. As their grandmother walks into the door she tries to greet them by holding them. Since they do not know her very well, they start to cry as their mother takes their clinging hands from her neck. Eventually they slowly begin to trust this elderly person that has come to visit. Soon Grandma is playing with them and soon after that they start to hug her too. They start to display this love at an early age, this love for their family.
As soon as they turn three, their mother starts to look into schools for the twins. As they start to go to preschool, they meet more boys and girls their own age. They become friends with the opposite sex, but since they already are friends with each other, it does not seem like anything new to them. As they go through kindergarten, they start to learn that there is a difference between boys and girls. When they reach first grade, Suzy learns that boys are bad and that they have “cooties.” Soon Suzy and her friends started to chase Bob and his friends around the school. They chases them around the playground at school, trying to catch them, but they never manage to actually get them.
As they move into second grade, Suzy starts to like some of the boys in her class. “Like” means both a crush and as a friend it just depends on the person. Then Suzy and her friends start having pretend weddings in the field at school. They always get married to Bob and his friends. Also in second grade, Bob starts to kind of think of girls as his friends, but that was only because they did not chase him as much on the playground. He does not like the idea of the weddings and neither do his friends. But they just do it just because.
As they move into third grade Suzy starts to get more crushes on boys in her class. Bob thinks about the girls a little more, but he does not really get into liking them yet. At recess, the girls still play house under a tree, while the boys play soccer in a muddy field. The boys and girls are still separated. As fourth grade and fifth grade pass, both of the twins start to get crushes on members of the opposite sex. They start to talk about each others friends to their own friends. But this is not romantic, or true, love.
You do not experience true love when you are a child. Children are not capable of feeling true love for many reasons. They are not supposed to feel romantic love because their hormones are not ready for that. The most that they feel is a crush. But schoolchildren’s crushes do not mean anything. During their early school years, children especially could not feel romantic feelings for one another. This is because they are both sure that the boys/girls have cooties. This changes by the time they reach their teenage years.
The romantic love of people in their teens is more true then the love of a child. When you reach your teens you begin to understand the true meaning of love. You know that love is not njust the love for your parents or siblings. You also begin to understand the true definition of romantic love. As soon as you get into middle school you start to see “couples.” That is when you start to develop an understanding about true love.
When they move into sixth grade, Suzy and Bob start to “go out.” This means that a boy and a girl are boyfriend and girlfriend for a week or two. When Suzy got asked out one day, she entered the world of dating. A couple of months later, Bob started the same thing by asking a girl that he liked to go out with him. They both have now started going through a hard and painful journey, but it is worth it in the end.
As they turn into teenagers at thirteen, they start to change a lot. Suzy and her friends start to talk about all of the boys in the school nonstop. Bob still only talks about video games with his friends. As they go through eighth grade they start making friends with the opposite gender. Bob’s group and Suzy’s group start to mix together. Soon there are many boyfriend and girlfriend connections throughout the group.
As their group moves to high school for ninth grade, the boys and the girls starts going on dates to the movies together. They sometimes go with other friends, but everyone ends up sitting next to their boyfriend/girlfriend. This also continues through tenth and eleventh grade. From ninth through eleventh grade, everyone start falling in love with each other. They start to experience true love for the other sex. True love is a romantic, unconditional love. Many of the boyfriend and girlfriend relationships started because of this. Eventually, some of them were going out together for many months and the couples started to get more serious.
By twelfth grade most of the people in Suzy’s and Bob’s group is around eighteen years of age. This is when they are considered adults by the society. Since they are allowed into most clubs at this age, they are considered more responsible. But true love is starting to get familiar to them. It is the same way when you have been on your favorite roller coaster so many times that it has lost the same excitement that it had the first time. True love is not the same it used to be at one time.
As they turn into adults and moved to a dorm at their colleges, they almost completely lost their idea of true love. You experience your truest love during your teen years.
Adults have forgotten the true meaning and feeling of true love. When you reach eighteen you have experienced a lot of true love already. You start to get used to it, and do not realize true love anymore. It is just like when you have been on a “big kid” slide many times before as a kid. Eventually, you have gone on it so many times that it has lost its thrill, or its excitement. Like this, the experience of true love is not the same, exciting love that you feel when you are in your teenage years.