p0rtalman said:
cheezeheadiii, you met this girl in year 7? that's a bit young to be finding someone you 'love'. no offence meant, but when you're that young its best not to be looking for a really meaningful relationship, i think its like 98 percent of high school relationships last out of high school. i know what its like to have a girl friend when you're young (I'm only 16. year 11 in australia) I've only found its a distraction. If all you think about is women you're grades will go down, you will get depressed if they reject you. Its best to just put it out of your mind, concentrate on going ok in school, so you can get a good job and laugh in the faces of those 'jocks' who got all the chicks in school but dropped out at year 9 or 10, have a crummy job, and will never do anything with there lives.
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I definately agree with Portal there. Grade Seven is
waaay too early to commit yourself to finding love, and a long-term relationship. Hell, to be perfectly honest I didn't have my first real relationship until I was in high school, and I was almost half way through it (Grade Ten).
Back then, I tried asking a lot of girls out (there were so many I ended up losing count, LOL), and in most cases was rejected outright. For a time, I found thier hypocrisy downright annoying; I'd hear these girls talking to thier friends about the kind of guy they'd like to be with, I'd think to myself "Hey, I have a lot of those qualities", after getting to know them a little better I'd ask them out, but they always fed me the "I like you, but only as a friend" or "As much as I want my man to be strong emotionally and mentally, I also like him to be strong physically" line (I was kinda scrawny back in high school).
It just dumbfounded me how they would go on and on about thier "ideal" boyfriend, which I seemed to match in many respects, and yet when it was presented to them they'd go back on thier word and turn away from it. Then again, to be fair, just as I didn't really know what I wanted in relationships back then, they probably didn't either.
And the whole rejection thing? Yeah, don't fall prey to it. I'll admit that, at first, having those girls turn me down kinda got me feeling a little depressed and lonely, but after a while I kinda got used to it. It got to the point where I could just brush it off with no ill effects. I'd ask a girl out, she'd say "No", I'd shrug it off and leave it at that. Didn't phase me at all after that.
Now, when I ask a girl out, if they say "No" it doesn't bother me in the slightest. Either it works out, or it doesn't. No skin off my nose if it doesn't. Look at it this way; the worst a girl can do is say "No", nothing more. In most cases it could be a girl you just met, so you don't really know anything about her anyway. It's not like you lose anything in that scenario, as you didn't know her to begin with.
You seriously have to develop a "thick skin" for that sort of thing. I mean, c'mon... just because a girl says "No" doesn't mean it's the end of the world. There are plenty of other girls out there, and chances are these girls you try asking out simply aren't worth your time.
Of course, there have been a few instances where I've taken the approach of getting to really know the girl first before asking her out, but as often happens I wait too long on that and by the time I do ask her out, we've gotten to the point of being good friends, and they don't want to possibly ruin our friendship due to dating. So, unfortunately that strategy sort of blows up in my face, LOL.
At this point I've gained much more experience and knowledge in relationships, they way they work and the kind of relationship I'd ideally like to have. Been single for over four years (my last long-term girlfriend, turned fiance, was my high school sweetheart), and you know what? It's not so bad. True, I occasionally miss having a "special someone" in my life, and all the "little things" that go with that, but at the same I enjoy having time to myself to do my own things.
One other thing I always like to remind myself of is, although I may not have a "special someone", I still have all of my good friends and family to keep me company. For that, I'm very grateful. So, I'm never really lonely. As the addage goes:
[Boyfriends/girlfriends] may come and go, but friends and family last a life-time. You'll always have two-thirds of the equation, even if that one-third isn't present all the time.
You should try to look on the positive, and get yourself out this downspiral rut you're currently in. Things will get better, they always do. Just because you don't have a girlfriend doesn't mean your life's meaningless (as nice as it is to have a girlfriend, there are other equally important things in life). You should embrace this opportunity for perhaps some soul-searching, learn more about who you are and where you're headed, and reassert yourself socially, get yourself out there.
Try getting back in touch with those old friends, you'd be surprised how many of them would welcome hearing from you and would like to jump-start your old friendship with them. Make new friends, expand your social circle. It does no good to sit alone by yourself brooding over what is really a rather trivial matter.
Take it from one who knows with more experience in such things...
@ Portal: Dude, that's pretty darn funny. I can only imagine the insanity that is Valentine's Day at your school...

lol