RealTalkAJ

I’ll be sharing things about my first crush with all of the readers on my site.

My first crush was someone that had a lasting impact on me.

It confused me with how it happened.

An important point that feel I should point out was that it happened at school.

And it’s tough for me to explain considering I wasn’t even in the double digits as far as age when it came to my crush either.

What person you met left a lasting impression on you?

The person I met that left a lasting impression on me is the first girl I ever liked.

She was the younger sister of an older friend I looked up to growing up.

She was the type of girl that was the leader of her female companions.

We first got introduced to each other very early on in elementary school.

Is it normal to feel confused about a crush?

I say it’s normal to feel confused about a crush because the feelings that you have aren’t necessarily guaranteed to be reciprocated.

It’s usually confirmed after an awkwardly blatant attraction to each other is vocalized in one way or another.

This is also when you would subscribe to the notion that “girls have cooties” so when you acknowledged your feelings it felt weird.

At least to admit it.

To make things even more odd her brother would actually “babysat” me at times during the summer so I would see her then too.

And her mom was active at our school but chaperoning during events.

How can I forget my school love?

It might be a bit extreme to call them my love but she was someone I was sure I liked a lot. She liked the same things I did:

• Anime
• Cartoons
• Video games
• Sports

The list goes on.

We had every class together and she supported me when I would lead our student body in games I’d make up.

And she put me on to her favorite candy.

Reese’s Cups.

So it would be really reasonable method to impress her for me if I was to be asked.

Why do teenagers bother with young love?

Teenagers bothered with this type of love because all of our likes were in sync.

At least the ones that went to my school.

We all liked the same things to an extent.

Any form of media you could think of was something we had in common.

So what I believe is that it shaped our worldview.

What that meant was if we saw certain partnerships or relationships that would form we could parallel it easily.

It’s kind of cool in reflection.

But to continue the timeline we never made it to our teenage years together.

We ended up going to different schools and never saw each other again.

As far as people that would care about who liked whom was probably our first introduction into learning about social proof.

It was a time where it mattered who liked you back and if you were brave enough to admit you like someone.

Very interesting times to grow up in.