True Love

My mood is back down again so I'm focusing on tasks I need to accomplish to make it through the day. I am doing laundry and am going to go grocery shopping and pay the bills. Today I watched Crazy/Beautiful which put me in an awful mood. It was about this 17 year old girl who destroys everything in her path. She is severally depressed due to her mother's suicide and her father's neglect. She meets a straight-laced boy and they fall in-love. Of course the girl brings the boy down to her level and he ends up getting into trouble: losing friends, almost losing any chance at college, his mom doesn't trust him anymore,etc. But in the end since he risks everything to be with his "true love" it works out in the end because his true love ends up feeling loved and being reconciled with her father who helps the boy get into college. Very unrealistic, let me just say. It put me in a horrible mood. Why does our society value the feeling of being in love about all moral,ethical, and realistic standards? Does it make sense to sacrifice yourself for love, when it isn't really love? When it's just lust,excitement,temptation, passion, seeming to meet an unmet need in the name of love? True love does not destroy, but lifts up. It is not in a hurry, but is patient and waits. True love really cares about the other person and not what that person does (or can do) for you.