There's a new Taylor Swift song playing on the radio called “Fifteen” and I can't seem to get it out of my head. The first time I heard it I liked the beat and the musicality of the song. The next time I heard it I honed in on the first line of the chorus: Cause when you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you your gonna believe them.

The line took me back a minute to the days of my first love. Those days of dating the football player who was a senior to my sophomore. Of getting that butterfly feeling in the pit of my stomach when we first met, during the first date, the first time he held my hand, when we kissed and when he told me he would always love me. It was something I had never experienced before; loving someone that wasn't family, with such passion and excitement. And the naivety of falling head over heels in love with someone, and not yet knowing the pain of heartbreak.

But my favorite part of the song are these few lines: I've found that time can heal most anything; and you just might find who you’re supposed to be; I didn't know who I was supposed to be, at fifteen.

I know I didn’t know who I was supposed to be. In fact it was that "first love" process of head over heels to heart break that helped me to become the successful, independent/strong and HAPPY woman that I am today. And let's face it, while a "first love" has it's magical moments, it just isn't the same as "true love." For true love is never ending.

So, thank you Taylor for recording a song that speaks to this experience that girls go through every day. I hope that young women hear what you are singing and can have the faith to know that there is so much out there for them in life. And know that someday they too will find who they are supposed to be.

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