Story of My Life

One of my close friends was at my house the other day and received a phone call from his girlfriend, relatively new. I've known this friend for all of high school. I'm pretty familiar with his ways with girls but not with this particular relationship. To say the least, my friend found high school relationships to be overrated. With this attitude, I didn't really have any expectations for his new relationship. To my surprise, I discovered to find my friend in a whole new element. I have never seen this side of him. How much he cares for his significant other showed through his tone of voice. I never seen him so selfless when talking to another person. This moment inspired to me write this post on the subject of relationships.

I know this is going to sound pathetic on many levels but I feel comfortable with the truth. All of my life from as long as I've remembered, girls had been the epitome of happiness for me. My relationship status with my crush, girlfriend, or whatever determined my mood and spirit. Junior year, my interest in finding a perfect soul mate came to an halt. I guess after a pretty serious friendship/relationship brought me to reality or some would say "maturity".

Initially, I tried to go about my old ways but for some reason this time was different. I had lost my passion and drive. I didn't know what I was searching for anymore.

With this new mind set, I lost direction in my life. I didn't have a backbone to keep me going. Although my junior year was fun, it was a blur of recklessness. Then came senior year where I took a hold of things. I collected myself and became independent. I would say this is a huge step towards maturity and adulthood. I found goals and made progressive strides. This is what led to my passion for sprinting (track). With all these new components in my life, filled with goals and "happiness" I knew there was something missing.

From observation, a relationship is something everyone searches for. I look around campus and the world in general and I find relationships of different shapes and sizes. People I would never expect to have relationships on their mind are in one. Maybe its just a part of our primitive instincts.

So this brings me back to eavesdropping on my friends phone conversation. It reminded me of why relationships are so special. Although I am independent now, I hope there's someone special there for me


To me, having someone that'll lace fingers with me when I'm driving to get something at Safeway...
someone that'll stay up all night talking to me on the phone...
someone that'll watch transformers with me...
someone that'll listen to music with me in my car...
someone that'll get jamba juice with me on wednesday mornings...
someone that'll make stupid faces with me on the webcam...
someone that'll have pearl shooting wars with me...
someone that'll keep me company before school starts...
someone that'll watch a movie with me on my couch...
someone that'll pick me up when my car is not available for whatever reason...
someone that'll take a nap with me after school...
someone that'll kiss me on the cheek when I'm feeling down...
this is someone that'd make my life worth a million times more than what it is.