I think a lot of teens and pre-teens enter high school with a certain hope in their heart for love. Those same teens and pre-teens leave high school with either a pieced together broken heart, a fulfilled one, or one that has gone untouched. The ones I refer to as "the untouched" feel cheated. They feel like something must be wrong with them because they didn't fall in love in high school. These are the type of people I just want to shake and point down the yellow brick road of hope.
High school, as I've said before, is NOT the end all be all for love. Most of those who didn't have any sort of romantic relationship in high school are too mature for it. They're the ones college was made for! You have to keep in mind that as mature we all like to think we are, we're still kids and that makes it hard for someone with an old soul to find new love in the hallways. I think that you should consider yourself lucky. You have (for the most part) avoided heartbreak and having to deal with immature and meaningless relationships. When you finally find that first love, it will mean more to you than you can imagine and that is a gift. So, keep the faith my friends. Love finds you when you least expect it.
April, You are wise beyond your years. I see many of our peers who chase after vain relationships, and when they get into them, they are unsatisfied. The thing is, when we are in high school, we still have the rest of our lives ahead of us. To go all biblical on everybody, Paul says in Corinthians that being single is a gift, and as I'm sure anyone who has been in any type of crappy or vain teenage relationship can attest, he was speaking the truth. And as far as going to college goes, your are right again. A good friend of mine who is older and now has a wife and daughter once told me that he refused to have a girlfriend in high school going into college, because it would be stupid to "take sand to the beach".
ReplyDeleteApril this is great and I love it. I think for all the people who were and are "untouched", they can't appreciate being single because they've always been single. It gets repetitive and tedious after a while and sometimes it can hurt. Definitely when you see all the people who are together and you wonder, "What's wrong with me?". Nothing is wrong, but that's just the conclusion for some odd reason. Until they actually get in a relationship then they'll realize how being single should be enjoyed.
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