fuck the title

Childhood love is a bliss that is never felt again.
When it is lost you crash and then you ponder, and come to the realization that this sweet feeling is too easily lost, and you never feel anything like it again; it is taken away from you, to vulnerable to ever return. Some lucky few can hold onto it forever, but are they so lucky? How do you grow without pain, how can you know love unless you know the true opposite?
I think it is possible, with gentle coaxing, to feel such a strong feeling again. Only if you are a strong soul, a soul that can take numerous beatings; after all, isn’t that what love is?
Few know the true essence of love, and many more adults claim teenagers, children, cannot truly be in love, but I feel the opposite. In fact, I think it is children who know true love, and learn it by simply being innocents.
They know love is not selfish but the opposite, it is selfless. It is a love for the other person and the desire to benefit the other, not yourself. It is about suffering, and making yourself to suffer in order to please, and while many feminists crying domestic abuse may bemoan me, they take it the wrong way.
Suffering to please simply means there must be some tragedy in order to strengthen your adoration. As they say, “absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
On the other hand, claims that “I am always thinking of them – I must be in love!” is so very wrong, I wonder why it is such a prevailing idea. You think of them for your own benefit, it is a selfish thing. You think of them because you want to be loved, and they are there to fulfill that desire.
Love is often a dependency, one person needing the other because they fill their dependencies. One is lonely, and the other is always available; meanwhile, the available one needs to be depended on to feel worthwhile.
That was sketchily written, but I can’t think of a better way to put it. It is simply the truth that neither does a thing to satisfy the other, directly.
A childhood love – or first love – is one of the most selfless we can have, and also the one we look back most fondly on.
Is it really only because it was the first? Or is it because the passion was never the same afterwards, and such strong feelings always linger in us?
Or is the selflessness guilty for such fond memories?