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What Adults Don't Understand

February 15, 2009
By Anonymous

My mom was reading one of the poems of this magazine the other day, and she did something that really irked me. She was reading a poem from the February issue, Nothing Like. When she was finnished reading, she let out a 'humph', like she didn't actually belive that "kids" like us could know what love is yet. Like love is only for responsible adults. Well let me say something right here and right now: By the time you are thirteen, you have probably been in love. There I said it. Now people can argue about it.



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on May. 1 2011 at 7:30 pm
HaleyDRog. GOLD, Easley, South Carolina
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. -Robert Frost

Yeah, you're right about that. I was just stating my opinion.

on Apr. 30 2011 at 11:39 pm
DrkSkinBeauty BRONZE, St.Louis, Missouri
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I am not a word , I am not a line , I am not a girl that can ever be defined . I am not fly , I am levitation . I represent an entire generation <3 (Nicki Minaj]

beautiful point

on Apr. 30 2011 at 11:36 pm
DrkSkinBeauty BRONZE, St.Louis, Missouri
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I am not a word , I am not a line , I am not a girl that can ever be defined . I am not fly , I am levitation . I represent an entire generation <3 (Nicki Minaj]

i understand what you are saying but not everyone in middle school and highschool is immature because of the simple fact that we are all different and mature at different rates & times. & i noticed you said they dont know what true love is , i personally think that everyone has there own definition for true love .

on Apr. 30 2011 at 8:06 pm
HaleyDRog. GOLD, Easley, South Carolina
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. -Robert Frost

I disagree. Kids in Middle and High School don't know what true love is. They are too immature to know what it means.

on Apr. 30 2011 at 12:05 pm
MonaLisa316 GOLD, Indianapolis, Indiana
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YOLO:you only live once

i agree 100% with this author...i understand what you mean and i agree with you cuz i have been in luv b4 and im only 4teen

NinaQ GOLD said...
on Apr. 24 2011 at 4:06 pm
NinaQ GOLD, Seattle, Washington
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Pick your heart up off the floor<br /> Sometimes, there are things you can only do alone<br /> You can cry for now but just become stronger the next day

Dont blame your parents, blame all those stupid teens who overuse the word love like they know it all and they make us look bad 

on Apr. 22 2011 at 8:40 am
ashley1012 BRONZE, Glasgow, Kentucky
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Come askin for it and you will get

i think that this article is soo true you really dont know when you fall in love i am 14 and i dont know what true love is or means i mean i flirt with boys and they flirt with me but i dont say i love you so yeah

MorganOlivia said...
on Apr. 19 2011 at 8:01 am
MorganOlivia, Pilot Mtn., North Carolina
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no i have to totally disagree. i dont know any teen by the age of thirteen who has been in love. it might have been a crush, lust or infacuation, but never love. thirteen is way too young anyways. were still maturing at that age and even at my age i am right now. i ddnt get a bf til i was 15. i can honestly say i was not in love with him. i did love him and i still do, which is way different than being in love, although i have never been in love, im sure i will know when i am, but dont put love on numbers, dates, or times. love comes when god sends it and you will know when ur in love.

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on Apr. 8 2011 at 6:42 pm
Sosii GOLD, Chicago, Illinois
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Absolutly true!!

on Mar. 17 2011 at 8:00 pm
countrygirl98 BRONZE, Greenville, Kentucky
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If something ended, Don&#039;t be sad. Just simply turn the page because you never know what&#039;s awaiting in the next chapter &lt;3

I believe love has no age, & no limits <3

on Mar. 17 2011 at 6:05 pm
SweetandSour101 BRONZE, West Valley City, Utah
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i love him to death, but to him im nearly dead... &lt;3

OMG!! i totally agree with this. ;)

on Mar. 8 2011 at 7:11 pm
teacat749 BRONZE, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin
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We do not quit playing because we grow old. We grow old because we quit playing.<br /> -Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have never been in love.

Hard to believe, but 100% true.

Even so, I believe that  no matter how young you are, you can fall in love. 

Adults say that teens confuse love with lust, but really, I think it's the other way around.


on Mar. 7 2011 at 3:40 pm
Averyactor BRONZE, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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&quot;Telekenetics in the audience, please raise my hand.&quot; -Mark Twain

Well best wishes to you but all I'm saying is that things change. I made and was made the same promise, and then THINGS CHANGED.

on Mar. 6 2011 at 9:08 pm
ThatsMy-Baby GOLD, White, South Dakota
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&quot;I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they&#039;re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.&quot; <br /> &mdash; Marilyn Monroe

I disagree completely. I can promise you i am with the man i love and will love for the rest of my life. I will spend ever day with him and i could never get tierd of hearing his voice. We can talk about everthing and anything with eachother. I love him more than anything and i would give anything for him. I can picture ever second of our future together happy sad angry all of it. He will be by my side forever he made that promise to me and i made the same to him. I'm 13 and have a promise ring on my finger. And my love is true and faithful.

on Feb. 26 2011 at 10:08 pm
AshyBaby BRONZE, Some Where, Colorado
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&quot;Love like you&#039;&#039;l never be hurt. Live like it&#039;s your last day. Laugh from your soul. Dance like no one is watching and sing like you&#039;re a star&quot;

I just have to say that I dissagree with you both. You can love at any age. You can give your entire heart to someone. It may be scary but it's true. My first love was when i was twelve. I still love him even though he's just my friend he's my most loyal companion and most trusted confidant.

on Feb. 26 2011 at 9:58 pm
AshyBaby BRONZE, Some Where, Colorado
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&quot;Love like you&#039;&#039;l never be hurt. Live like it&#039;s your last day. Laugh from your soul. Dance like no one is watching and sing like you&#039;re a star&quot;

We do love. Adults may not believe it because we fall hard, and we fall fast and we don't really know how to understand the way we feel some of the time. And we don't always know how to maintain a relationship well. When we get hurt they may say its because we are "over emotional teenagers" but its because we loved and lost. And don't people say that it's better to have loved and lost then to have never loved at all? <3

on Feb. 23 2011 at 1:12 pm
anonymouse222, CC, Texas
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There are a bunch of different kinds of love. Love changes as we change. :)

on Feb. 23 2011 at 7:50 am
dancergurl22 BRONZE, Grand Junction, Michigan
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Love, like you can&#039;t get hurt<br /> Dance, like no one&#039;s watching<br /> Live, like there&#039;s no tomorrow

We do fall in love. Sometimes we just don't realize how far or how hard we are falling. As for me I have had my first love this year at the age of 13, but as much as I say that I regret it all, consitering that he was my first kiss all the way to my first slow dance, I know deep in my heart that I will never regret a single second with him. <3 love it!

on Feb. 18 2011 at 4:40 pm
musicprincess PLATINUM, Braselton, Georgia
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They say that love is forever, your forever is all that I need

It just kill me that they dont think we do love. It is love, its just a learning experience for us. They dont get that i suppose.

on Feb. 16 2011 at 2:22 pm
freetobe8080 SILVER, Powhatan, Virginia
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&quot;Live like you&#039;re at the bottom, even if you&#039;re at the top.&quot; - Kevin Jonas Sr.

First of all, let me say, I really wish TeenInk had a "like" button for comments because there are so many comments on here that I wish I could like. And Teenagers CAN be in love... love is for all ages.