I love you like a freshman loves to change majors

A college relationship is like picking your major. It is practice decision, doomed for change. Like a major, a college relationship lasts anywhere from a day, to a semester, it is with varied difficulty you get accepted, it is an easily distractible decision due to the developing short attention span, and it sometimes appears to limit you in choices and options for your future.

These attributes usually inspire self-discovery leading to questions regarding your emotions and ideals; what do you want, what do you love, what are you looking for, are you prepared to commit your life to this? It requires you to know yourself in order to know what you are getting into. It requires a commitment you are unable, if not unwilling, to give. Change is thus impossible to avoid.

Despite this, the expectations of others rise around you. How many freshmen have you met that claim to be the first to pick a major and plan to stick with the schooling for four years and then fully pursue the career? You encourage them the best you can but secretly are waiting for them to break up outside the dorm. In the rain. Current statistics show that 50% of freshmen who declare a major will change it in their first year. What a waste of time and money.

You can find an allegory for life in many things that hardly relate.