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Cristina Crescenzo (she/her/hers), Low Entropy Volunteer Writer

For as long as I can remember I have always been infatuated with the idea of love and romance, getting my first taste of it through fairy tales like Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, believing that true love’s kiss was genuinely the most powerful magic in this world. In addition to the media I was consuming on a regular basis I grew up with parents that had been together since high school and I believed I should strive for the same thing; a love that endures.

 It wasn’t until I got past my primary days that my relationship towards love started to change almost to a more bitter degree. Don’t get me wrong I have always felt nostalgia for fairytales and have held tight to the belief that everyone deserves a happy ending but now that I have more life experience I have seen love take shape in many different ways and I understand now that love is something that doesn’t just apply in a romantic context. Thus, when I am asked a question like “Is it possible for a person to have more than one great love in their life?” My answer would be very different to the one I would have given at 13 years old. 

Therefore, I no longer believe that people can only have one great love in this life because romantic love is not the only type of love we can experience and it is also not the most important one either, at least in my eyes. Someone I used to love once told me that “you can’t love anyone else until you learn to love yourself” and those words have been stitched into my heart ever since. So now learning to love myself more than anyone ever will is one of my main aspirations, because although meeting someone you can connect with is such a beautiful and special thing I think being able to love yourself despite all the flaws you may see or all the obstacles you might face alone qualifies as one of the greatest forms of love. I would count myself lucky if ever met one other person I could love that deeply but also feel secure knowing that if that love were to come to an end due one of many inexplicable reasons I would still have that love for myself that will sustain me through the rest of my time on earth. 

At the end of the day within my own mind and heart I feel that we can encounter many different types of love in our lives and they can all be wonderful. For instance, the love I have for my dog and the love that he has for me is without conditions. Another example of a profound love we can share in a platonic way is with our friends. Hence, I trust that I have proved that love is not a one-time thing, however I do think the happily ever after part is up to us. 

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My name is Cristina Crescenzo I’m a just a girl who loves to write and while I am going to school Low Entropy is a place I can share my passion and ideas with a diverse group of individuals. My main goal is always will be to spread awareness for mental health and the disabled community.