Relationships - the Shallow End

Sorry bout not posting recently. First, I had a real busy past few days, and then I'm also (already) running out of interesting subjects to write about. The fix? slowing down my posting habits (maybe 2 every 3 days or a bit less), as well as widening my spectrum on what to write about. I'll get more into it when I'm back from Taiwan.

I still have a social life in Taiwan! Anyways talking to people and putting some evidence together got me thinking about relationships: specifically, high school ones. Isn't it the tad bit annoying when you just see that touchy couple always hugging or making out. But by my analysis, high school relationships (or lack thereof), are good.

High school relationships teach everyone a little something. If the person was rejected, he learns what he did wrong. If the couple lasts any amount of time, the person learns what it is like to be in a relationship, and what he did wrong to cause it to fail. If the couple lasts forever... well that's just amazing.

A few people do marry their high school sweetheart, but it is not quite common enough to justify those relationships at all. So why do people do it? Perhaps for the experience, whatever that "experience" may be. Or perhaps it is because hormones get the most of people during puberty, and they have to express their hormones somehow by initiating a high school relationship.

Many high school relationships, unfortunately, are quite shallow. Despite the people that claim that they have found "love", even 8th or 9th grade, it is just an excess of hormones treating them as such. An excess of hormones are released during close physical contact (hugging, kissing, and any bases past that), that cause the brain's trust receptors to be overloaded; the person will extremely trust their opposite and anything they say (for example, I love you.) Combined with the fact that many high school relationships are simply hugging, this may prove quite lethal for both people in the relationship after it has ended, at least until they realize that it was just a shallow relationship.

I know of a couple that was extremely close and decided to take it extremely far. Which would be okay, but from what I could tell, they never argued. As soon as their first argument was sparked, they became excessively alienated from one another and, many months later, someone is still crying about it.

But whatever. Onto PDA. Love it (to quote one of the most awesome guys in the world: "When I see you and [her] make out, I get a boner"), or hate it ("Dude, they're like the most PDA couple ever), it helps boost a variety of things. The trust for each other by hormones mentioned above, affirming to the world that they are (deeply?) in "love", and by doing that, also boosting the self esteem of the couple (I have a boyfriend/girlfriend, and you don't.)

I'll leave you with this song. I'm sure you've heard it before, but it's still nice to listen to old songs. It's about shallow relationships and how the singer thinks that he's "in love" but then he moves on to another girl and he thinks that he's "in love" again.

NOTE: if I mentioned you in this post, and you dislike it (I kept everything vague anyways), I'll take it off if you request so.