Love Or Merely Myth? Love or merely myth? As I sit here listening to what I can only describe as 'love ballads' on my iPod flying miles above the air in a small plane from my holiday I start to wonder about the true meaning of the lyrics that mean so much to me, as they pull at the innocent young girl burried deep down in the negativity that has consumed me over the years. Is love true or merely myth? Yes before it is asked I feel that I have experienced the feeling that is technically defined as love an am not shy to admit it was a painful mistake. Yes at one point you are filled with the beautiful neon butterflies that full your every vein with excitement and everyone part of your day is intensified by their mere presence, but my argument is this, when does it last? I have known many couples throughout my 22 years but are they still in that endless maize that they define as the excitement of love or has #life tainted their love, stress, money, jealously, incompatibility? So many factors, how is this rare yet constantly searched for emotion expected to survive in such cold an bitter climates? As much as I would like to release myself to the concept that I will live happily ever after like the Disney films I used to admire as a small child I feel that in my era I must harden myself to the reality that yes dating is an exciting an compelling experience but is it just a wild goose chase that eventually ends in the inevitable settling before age consumes are youth an bids it too late? Don't get me wrong I am a sucker for the romantic film an novel where the happy ending is guaranteed but that's just it these books and films seem to be the only examples of romantic success that I see an these end while the couple are still young and new which says what exactly that going any further into their lives is too unrealistic for its viewers? Is it that the elder generation have missed their chance? I don't know which is worse myself. I understand to many people reading this that this seems like the depressed rantings of a young girl that doesn't much leave her room, however it is not that way I am in fact not depressed nor confined to the gothic darkness of my thoughts but instead happy however just trying to understand the meaning of contemporary partnerships. As much as the young bubbly blonde inside me screams for her prince charming to rescue her from her castle of failed romance I can't help but wonder that is it merely for fairly tales and stories to tell are young hopeful children in order for them to picture a #life of happiness in the future with their very own prince. Would love to hear your thoughts xxx