Lauren Fish

"I've been so up and down about my views on love over the years. I used to be a hopeless romantic who believed love could conquer all, that it was ever lasting, and nothing could ruin true love. 

And then it all came crashing down, and I found myself completely against the entire concept of love. It was pointless, all a myth. That Hollywood and novelists depicted this fantastic love that everyone expected, and their expectations were never truly met because it was all so outrageous and surreal. All good things would come to an end, and I found myself thinking what was the point of even bothering, it'd all just die.

But that's the thing. I've come to realize, love.. it's like a fingerprint. Every single experience wasn't the same, everyone felt something differently. A baby's fingerprints are formed in the womb, when a baby first touches it's mother, that's when they're created. And love is the same way, without another person  love would never be there. Our first experience with love would always shape or future views on it. We were all searching as if we could replicate each other's experiences, as if it'd work for us. But you can't replicate someone else's love, just like a fingerprint. It's all different, every experience, every chemical, every feeling you have is never the same as anyone else's, it's why we're all so wildly disappointed when things don't work out how we hope, or dream it to. Sure, love can vanish, it can be wiped away, or left and forgotten about, but there's always new love forming, spreading, and whether it was wiped away or not, it was always still there, leaving it's mark."