just the first go round. As such, it's hard not to develop a more experienced sense of distance as you get older. It doesn't mean that the experience isn't overwhelming the first few times, but we're an adaptive species and it's equally true that familiarity makes the weight of unfamiliarity seem somewhat trite, excessive and unjustified. We were all stupid little bastards once and, as with anything, we learned not to be, or to be less so.
What I don't buy for a second is the over-romanticized notion that that kind of fire is the good, wholesome, honest and worthy version and that an older, more-neutral perspective is a loss, or worse in some way. Rome wasn't built by adolescents. It was built by men and women.
And in some ways I'll never understand why it's called "puppy love" when it's not real. Whoever put that phrase into practice obviously never saw a puppy's love. There's few things in this world more wholesome and serious than a puppy's love.[ Parent ]
