I believe in love. Love is the strongest feeling above all other feelings. It is life giving or life taking. Love can be exciting and frustrating, happy and sad, Love heals and breaks. It’ll bring people together and tear people apart. Love to me is respected and disrespected. Love can be pleasant and cruel. Love can be tender and tough. It creates life and destroys it at the same time Lives aren’t fully lived until love has entered them. If love destroys, it must be love that builds. I've learned that Love changes everything. It can change one’s state of the mind, making fate, safety, and forever seem true. One who is crazy in love cannot but help avert his mind from everyday activities to thoughts of love. Love is a formidable feeling, thought, and want. People will turn inside out because of love. Lives feel over or incomplete without love. It becomes a drug, and the most addictive one. People will kill for love, hurt for love, and die for love. Love causes people to do some of the most extraordinary things and are willing to do them if love is at risk. Love is the fuel that constantly makes the heart beat. Love is what fuels me. It is my motivation to succeed. Without love, I feel lost. Thoughts turn to tears, smiles turned to frowns, and the light turns to a dark. With love, the heart beats anxiously, faster than ever. It opens my eyes each morning, lets me feel everyday will be a good day. I’ve noticed the small things, and in love the small things matter just as much as the larger things do. I no longer believe in coincidences; things are meant to be. Love will keep my heart anxiously beating, make me happy and sad, excite me and frustrate me, but most of all, love will drive me to success as long as I believe in love, I will succeed. Zackary is a senior at Good Hope Country day school. He is a photographer and is on the national soccer team for the USVI.