Teenage love is a ton of bullshit, especially for guys. Teenage guys are all about confusing love and the sex drive. When puberty starts and the hormones start flowing, and all we want to do is achieve orgasm every five minutes, how can we really conceptualize who or what it is we really love?
We want girlfriends, or think we want girlfriends more because of those hormone-driven sex drives than a need for any honest-to-goodness relationship. We have a more honest love for our male friends while growing up than we do for the ladies. But this is totally beyound our ability to see while in the middle of it all.
And this totally confuses the ladies that we can’t help but pursue. Conceptually, most teenage girls understand themselves better, and understand interpersonal relationships better than most guys do. They attempt to relate to us on a more mature level, while all we’re doing is alternating between thoughts about grabbing her boob, and the point spread on this weekend’s football games. Throw in the fact that on a regular monthly cycle, their hormones are dragging them through irrational fears, doubts, sadness and elation every few seconds, and teenage love is one of the most impossible things to achieve.
Trouble is, my young friends, most of the time, you have no choice in the matter. We can’t escape the matrix, the system of programming which at any time is the sum total of all the conditioning up to and including this very moment. We can’t escape the chemistry of the physical system either, as the thoughts and emotions you believe that are you, are being driven by the neverending requirements of the body.
Salvador Dali was once asked by some smart-ass interviewer who thought he would catch Dali in some admission of unacceptable behavior, whether he did drugs. Dali`, the genius that he was, responded back with disdain, “I don’t do drugs. I am drugs”.
In that comment alone is more insight into the complexity of what we feel and think about ourselves and our notselves. And we “medicate” ourselves in the most horrendously haphazard ways all our lives, and never really understand this or care to do much about it. Sure we admit to the blatant chemicals like caffeine, THC, alcohol, nicotine, sugars etc, but we are seldomly willing to even consider the subtle chems that we provide and deprive our systems of on a regular basis.
Sorry, man, I know this thread was about the bullshit of teenage love, but the need for love at any age is something wonderful, and something that should always be foremost in our minds. We’re really just hunks of organic goo without the Love, so going after it isn’t bullshit. The bullshit is the chaos of your rapidly developing body and mind, and if you can gain control in some respects of what and how you treat yourself, achieving the Love may be less stressful.
Here I am, doing my Dr. Phil impersonation, and I hate that guy with a passion.
