Declaration of Love · 10:31pm Jun 2nd, 2017
It's easy, isn't it, when you're young; to claim you "love" someone because of how strongly you feel about this person. To declare him or her someone you can't live without, to declare them a life partner. The foolishness of youth is ignorance in understanding the scale between love and simple affection. You believe you're in love with someone, mostly when that someone's a first crush, and delude yourself into believing everything will be okay and you'll be with that someone forever.
People often think that Romeo and Juliet is a love story. It's not, it's a warning; a mockery of teenagers confusing love and affection, and the often reckless actions indulged by their own little fantasies.
I fell in love once. At least, my fifteen-year-old self had, a few various times. Two girls, one with the looks and personality of a Goddess, and one with some... Questionable habits, but I remained charmed by looks and looks alone. My Autism hadn't granted me the logical thought patterns of a functional human being until my later years in college. Suffice to say, my heart was broken, moreso by the latter girl; crushed, again and again, because I believed I was in love, and it hurt.
And that's why Stardust doesn't want to make the same mistake again. It's easy for one at his age to declare love for someone, but until he's positively, absolutely certain this relationship with the Princess will stand strong and probably go through the remainder of his life, until the mere thought of even being separated from Twilight for even a day makes him miss her, he will not be so callous with throwing the "L" word around.
Though I do ask you this... Do you really need to say those three words out loud for someone to know how you feel about them?
I think the issue people have with the whole thing is that he literally gave up everything to stay with her. If he doesn't love her then that was pretty damn foolish thing to do just to see if he does.
4556237 I mean, his feelings for her played a role in that decision, but there's more to it than affections for one mare alone.
...I kind of feel this is directed towards my comment a couple days ago... xD
If twilight ever goes away he has Sunset Shimmer to replace her with.