Irina P. (EII) - Love is the most important thing in life

Love, to me, is a special word and the most important thing in life. I believe that nothing on earth is eternal—everything is temporary except for love. Love is eternal: it may not stay tied to the same person throughout life, but as a force it lives forever. Love is an inseparable part of happiness.

I am always in love, and if I’m not, I look for someone to fall in love with. Love can take many forms: happy, sweet, bitter, unrequited, devoted.

I struggle deeply with betrayal in love, when someone I love leaves. In the second grade, I fell in love like an adult for the first time. I fell for a boy who was three years older. We started dating. We saw each other very rarely. I loved him very deeply, and I grieved the breakup far longer than the relationship itself lasted.

After the breakup, the emotional pain was so strong that for several days I sat motionless, staring “blankly” at the same spot. I didn’t feel like crying, but it hurt terribly. After that, I forbade myself to suffer so much and found a way out. The pain fades when you fall in love again, so as soon as one relationship ended, I began searching for another young man.

When I found someone and fell in love, I tried to support everything we started together, noticed his talents and helped him develop them. This gave me extraordinary pleasure.