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You don't know what happened, and neither do I...

 The story: Before I arrived at college, I found a few people who were from the same city as me. Out of them there was a girl, S, that I was attracted to. I was extra nice to her during my first week out here and I made it very obvious. After my first week of getting here I made out with a different girl, D, because I felt like whatever I felt for S was very superficial and I'd rather be with someone who was into me than pathetically keep on trying to get someone that wasn't into me. Following this line of thought, after we first made out, D asked me how it'd work because I liked S and I told her that "I'm choosing to be here with you right now.". Now there's another person from my city, N, that we only met once we got here, and she integrated herself into the friend group. N noticed that I liked S, and constantly warned me not to go for S because that'd mean "my friend group will fall apart and I don't want to either of you to get in a situat...

Goodbye... Me...

 The summer I left for college... Everything felt gray. The world around me was put behind a wall and I was merely spectating the scenarios, or so it felt like. The laughs I shared with my friends and the stories of lovers and crushes that still made sense to discuss even after school was over might have been some of the best times of my life. In the nights we'd have a sleepover but not sleep at all, and in the mornings we would be up playing basketball, all of it seems like a fever dream now. A few years ago I wouldn't have thought this is how I would be living my life. Did I deserve to be this happy? Or maybe not, since I would proceed to fall out with a close friend and have another tell me that we weren't close. Hell, I couldn't even get into the college I wanted to. It makes me wonder if I even knew anything back then. Even today, I think the answer is still "No". Maybe it has always been this way. Maybe all this time I never really knew anything. I found...