The Importance Of Love In My Life

Ever since I was a little girl, I was always fascinated with the word love. Through eighteen years of running around unsure of every decision I decided to make for my life, I always knew that one thing made everything worth being here. I am a lover, a fighter, and a hopeless romantic. Searching out pure unadulterated love, has been the driving force of my interactions with people even more importantly myself. Although the road has been long and challenging, I embrace the ride. Underneath it all, I want to love and be loved.

Growing up in Birmingham, a very large city in Alabama, my parents provided my siblings in addition to myself a seemingly normal life. They brought us up to be very polite and also education oriented. We always had big parties, and celebrations every holiday that rolled around and we never had to go without love and support. At the time, there wasn’t a single thing wrong with my family. As a very young child I was often naive of the problems my parents had going on, until abruptly it all crashed down on me. My

I was only twelve the first time I logged into a chatroom and began building relationships with strangers all around the world. In cyberspace I found what I had been missing from my day to day life: friends. I met people who were as mature as I was and who didn’t mind teaching me about expressing my feelings through various ways such as poetry and even novellas. Once I found a way to explore my feelings, life for me changed. When I was feeling bad I could go online and express how I felt, and my friends there persuaded me into sharing how I felt through ways that would help others and were productive to me. This was the first time I actually felt anything remotely close to being loved, they cared about my well-being and I cared about