I guess I was more tolerant when I was younger, but nowadays I just get very skeptical when teenagers profess everlasting love for each other. In my mind, I am thinking like "Everlasting doesn't exist, please don't fool yourself."
Anyway I was reading the <Slammed> series of books by Colleen Hoover, which was about two young adults falling in love, with some slam poetry in the background. I found the first book really good, but it started to go downhill for me when I read the second and third book. I just find it too superficial and I feel so grossed out by the protagonist's thoughts, which was along the lines of
"Seeing her hurt like this and not being able to console her is unbearable. If I don't get out of the car right now, my hands will be tangled in her hair and my lips will be meshed with hers in a matter of seconds"
I just wanna vomit!
Sigh... I guess when I was younger, I was more idealistic towards the idea "love". I was fooled by all the YA novels I read when I was 13-16 years old and I actually believe in all those crap. Now as I got older and wiser, I feel it very difficult to feel like you love your significant other as much as it's described in fiction? It's so exaggerated! Sometimes I wish I could feel as strongly about "love" as those protagonists felt in the stories. I doubt if real humans can feel so strongly about someone or is it just a fake idea planted in my head by the authors? How many people actually feel that way in real life? Also, in the novels the couple would have to almost always overcome some earth shattering obstacle to get together. But in real life, this aspect is almost non-existent?
Come to think of it, it's my fault for choosing to read such books (how to resist when the reviews were so good on goodreads?!) and trying to find a parallel between that and real life.
Shall treat all YA books with a pinch of salt and only read those that have really really good reviews.
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