Everyone reads, or sees movies, about these amazing love stories (The Fault in Our Stars, Pride and Prejudice, The Notebook, and countless others). They're beautiful and things that some people look forward to.
With today's society, it seems like that's all lost. The sacred temples aren't sacred anymore. In a survey that one of my teachers organized, we learned that people are losing their virginity between 13 and 15 years old. People just don't seem to have the same respect for themselves as they did in previous generations.
In a conversation I had earlier with a 15 year old, romance was nonexistent. I'm 19 and this young boy asked me out to be in a relationship. I wasn't sure how I felt about this because h did the same thing to one of my friends a few months back. Another reason I wasn't interested is because I'm going away in a couple months. I don't want to feel like I can't have fun or be tied down. That's what I told him. I didn't want to be tied down.
This is when he asked if I wanted to be fwb. I discussed the message with my sister to find out that he was asking if I wanted to be friends with benefits (fwb). I was appalled! Do I seem like a person that wants to do that kind of thing? No! I'm like as innocent as they come. This kid knew this too! I asked him if I seemed like that kind of girl and he said no, not at all. He just wanted a relationship with me without tying me down. What ever happened to being friends? Just friends? We've had like three conversations before! He doesn't know me or anything about me, so why does he think we should be more than friends?
I know that the love story romance isn't exactly realistic, but that was just something I do not want to be part of. I'm not saying that I want a guy to have an elaborate, romantic gesture to ask me out, but to take the chance to get to know me in all my sassy glory. I'm worth a friendship, not a drive thru.
Just saying.
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