Puppy Love - What Young Hearts Should Do

Introduction

Everybody calls it puppy love. But what is that? Why in the world the word puppy attached to it? As long as you know, your feeling for her is real. Your affection for her is very deep. You want nothing except her. And the thought of losing her is unbearable!

You did not know what had happened to you. But now you feel that you have changed in someway, strange way. Unlike those good old days when you see all of your friends as your play mate, now it seems, for no reason at all, that girl looks very different from the others. A strange feeling that you have never had before....

Now her face is always on your mind, your mouth always whispers her name. You even tried to write a most beautiful poem for her, something that had never crossed your mind before.

You are confused, you do not know what to do. You feel the world has changed, all became very strange. Worse than that, you do not know if she, the one you have a crush on, is having the same feeling for you or not. You long for her, but when you meet her your nervousness makes you look silly before her. Wow! This yearning is torturing... but beautiful!

The Cause

Young friend, if that is what you feel, know this: you are not alone. Every teenager in the world sooner or later will face it. It is normal. The hormone changes in your body make you see those from the opposite sex differently.

In fact, every adult in the world had had been through it. There is even funny calls for it: puppy-love, calf-love, or even kitten-love. "Puppy-love?", you asked. Yes, because just like a puppy which is always very excited to every new thing she can find, so are we when we enter that puberty period and experience attraction to the opposite sex.

It is like a whole new world opened before our eyes, a beautiful new world of romance. We want to experience it to the fullness of it, but our fear and lack of experience make us sit there and waiting.

You do not know what to do. But too ashamed to ask your parents about it. Moreover, it seems they will not care enough. "At most they will just laugh and say that it is only a puppy love", you thought.

Yeah, you might be right. Your parents, uncles and every other adult around you might not take that seriously. They might just make fun of you and call you "a puppy in love". "It is just a puppy love", they might say heartlessly.

"How come they say that? Calling a pure love like this a puppy love? Very offending!", you thought.

Relax! They are just teasing you. They do not mean to belittle your feeling. They know and understand what you feel. All of them had been there. And because of it, they know well that most probably it will not be long. If you do not close yourself from the other girls, you will find that you have another crush to another girl soon... another puppy love:-)

What To Do

So, it is good that you wait. Do not take that feeling of infatuation too seriously. Because as a very young adult, your mind and heart are still not mature enough to handle the complexities that a relationship can bring. Your young heart and mind might not be able to handle well the pain and misery that will always be there in an unhealthy relationship.

Actually, in this "new world of romance", beauty and happiness belong only to those who are matured in mind and emotion. Why? Because both parties in every relationship have very different background & characters. Without understanding and maturity, no relationship will bring happiness to the persons involved in it. And bad relationship will always diminish the quality of lives of the ones involved.

So, it is good that you wait. Learn a bit more, observe your feeling as well as your surrounding. Enjoy your young life and do not let anything deviate you from what you are supposed to do. Remember, you have a very long way to walk on in your life. Do not let these temporary changes ruin your future!

Source: They Called It Puppy Love!