Things given away to carelessly:
I remember when I was younger, I had serious restrictions on saying the l-word. LOVE. I could not wait until the day that I could say “I love you” to the boy of my dreams. And I decided that I would never ever say it until the time that I actually felt it. I wanted that moment to be perfect and I did not want to waste it by saying it to my casual friends. It was always such a popular thing to say “Love you!” to your girlfriends at school. It was the thing to say when you were trying to be playful or cute or to let your friend know that you were pretty tight friends. But I didn’t like it. I always wished that it wouldn’t be weird if you could say to your friend, “I really really really like you! See you tomorrow!” But obviously, it wouldn’t work 
And of course, when my best friend would say she loved me, it was always casual, I knew that, she knew that, everyone knew that. But still, why use that precious word that has such a deep meaning? Eventually, I gave in and started saying I love you back to my friends because it would be just funny or ridiculous if they would say it to me and then I would just smile and wave back. Why was I making it such a big deal? To this day though, I still wish that I could have saved those words for my special guy. But everyone knows that the word love can be a very serious word at times and a very casual word too. I just wish there could be two different words… 
