This Is What I Do In Summer School.

We had a "How to Write a College Essay" seminar which was basics on how to write essays. yay. So to prevent myself from falling asleep, I wrote about some of the stuff he was talking about. It got interesting at one point.

Love is compromise.
Love is trust.
Love is understanding.
Love is patience.
Love is scary.
Love is a chemical reaction.
People think that love is a great thing that makes you feel great and happy all the time. But it's really not that. Anyone who says that they aren't afraid to fall in love is a fool or doesn't understand love fully. Just listen to the phrase: FALL in love. The thing about love that makes it so scary is that it is so easy to fall right back out of love. To fall in love is a commitment and it's frightening. To love someone, really love someone, hurts. To have your life depend on someone else's. That's scary. To know that if anything ever happened to that person, you would not be able to survive. Love isn't for the independent and self-centered. Love is for those who will put the other person before them and their needs. Those who will ignore their faults. Those who can be completely comfortable around someone. But falling in love and loving someone are 2 completely different things. You can love your family and your friends. But that one person that you are in love with, he matters to you more than you could possibly grasp.

[and then we were forced to write thesis sentences.]

The subconscious is scary. It reveals the true inner thoughts and feelings which people are not ready for. This is why people are afraid of the truth. We live in the cushioned world of lies and make believe. The truth hurts. It makes people nervous. But remaining ignorant prevents the hurt. Is that what you want?
This is why dreams are scary. Not dreams about bananas taking over the world, but real dreams. They represent something. Predict the future? Hopefully not. But they do reveal what is going on now, the the dreamer and the person they may dream about. Even the bananas do. Hurt. Laughter. Fear. Joy. Excitement. Despair. Anger.
Listen to them. They are trying to tell you something.