Love's Vocabulary Analysis

Us humans are one of the most complex mammals on Earth. We feel certain feelings, we have goals and wants that are as high as Mount Fuji, and we also love. This complex feelling makes humans crave, fight, cry, and laugh. It’s one of our greatest strengths and one of our greatest weaknesses.

Humans are people that are all different. There are babies, toddlers, young children, teenagers, young adults, and adults. Out of that list, teenagers are the biggest group of people that are usually very bipolar and emotionally distressed. While we are teenagers, we grow, learn, and learn even more. One thing all teenagers go through is puberty, the periodic stage of growth. Puberty makes our bodies grow, our minds learn new things, and make our emotions

circle through our minds as if we are running the 100m dash over and over again. Teenagers can feel happy and content one day, and feel depressed and angry the next day. Many people believe that teenagers don’t have real feelings, as if we are barbie dolls that sit around a toddler’s room all day. There is one feeling that drives adrenaline through our veins. That feeling is love. Love is an emotion that makes someone feel an intense feeling of affection. People say that teenagers don’t know what love feels like, but we certainly do. One thing we can’t do is distinguish the difference between love and lust.
Have you ever read the play called “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare? Well if you haven’t, the play is about two star crossed lovers that fell in love too fast and ended up killing themselves over a foolish decision. Unfortunately, Romeo and Juliet did not take the time to get to know each other. It seemed as if they both just wanted to feel love but they didn’t want to commit to it. They felt like they were in love, but of course it was all just lust.
Love is defined as a feeling that is so strong and controlling according to “Love’s Vocabulary”, an essay written by Diane Ackerman.

She thinks that love is an emotion that can control your actions and make you feel hate and fear. When teenagers go through puberty, our feelings and emotions are uncontrollable which causes us to make foolish and imbecile decisions. Many people think that teenagers just say they are in love just for the feelings, but most of the time it’s just our hormones controlling our minds like animals finding a mate. Teenagers go through a stage of emotional development when going through puberty, according to the article “Beyond Raging Hormones”. When teenagers are sad or mad, they usually listen to songs to cope with the heartbreak. One famous artist named Ed Sheeran is famous for his sad love songs. Although he writes sad songs, he wrote one song about loving a body of a girl he saw at a bad called “Shape of You”. The lyrics proved to me that people crave physical attraction the most, especially when they are heartbroken and sad.

While looking at love poems online, I viewed comments that asked, what is the difference between love and lust? Love is when you are patient, kind, and putting who you love first before your own self. Lust is a selfishness, disrespect, and having a lack of self control. Teens are usually caught up in lust, due to the fact that they are growing physically and emotionally. Some teens are just not ready to commit and make decisions,

so they go for one night stands.
. In conclusion, I believe that teenagers cannot distinguish the difference between love and lust. Love is a DECISION, lust is just a FEELING. Therefore, I still believe that teenagers can feel love but when it comes to people who think that having a one night stand with someone is love, I believe that is certainly incorrect. Teenagers are usually caught up in many things during the times of puberty, but I believe that later in life they will know the difference between love and lust. It’ll just take a lot of time to learn and to grow, but there is always a chance.