Oct. 25 Everything is different and I don't want to explain things.
Nov. 1 I crave the glittering, garish city lights, the loud raw music, the feeling of being completely and dangerously free.
Nov. 16 My heart hurts.
Nov. 17 I want to love you. I want to love you so much that I can't stop writing beautiful lyrical poems about the stars and my heart beat and your skin and I just want you to love me too.
Nov. 18 I think that if he knew me, really knew me, at all times of the day and night, he wouldn't love me.
Nov. 20 It's really funny how people can change.
Nov. 24 This is not paradise; this is hell.
Nov. 24 (later) I'm materialistic and shallow, but frankly I don't give a ****.
Dec. 14 My heart is literally pounding so hard I can feel it moving up and down in my chest. I'm blushing.
Dec. 20 And the butterflies live on, perpetually fluttering around in little circles in the pit of my stomach.
Dec. 21 He says I'm like a daisy.
Jan. 1 I downed a bottle of sparkles and sang like a drunk man would and he told me he loved me.
Jan. 25 He's so sweet and I think I love him.
Feb. 8 Long, content sigh.
Feb. 14 I'm going to blurt it out all at once because I'm feeling giggly so he stopped at the side of the road and kissed me and I feel like I'm floating.
Feb. 22 I feel trapped.
Feb. 28 He's always on my mind. Always.
March 13 I broke up with him. I'm not upset, and I'm worried about that. I don't feel anything at all. Are feelings supposed to just walk away and disappear like that?
March 29 His voice is irritating. I'm not a damsel in distress.
April 2 I think young love is only a glittering, fleeting illusion. I'm not sad about it.
I found one of my old diaries I kept when I was fifteen years old, and here are the first couple lines of different entries. It's sentimental and funny and sad to me, but I also think it shows the emotional stages that teenagers fall in and out off sporadically. Or maybe just me because I was (still am...) an emotional wreck.