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Catching Feelings: College Edition

New place, new people, new feelings.

Taylor Williams
Sep 20, 2016
West Virginia University
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Catching Feelings: College Edition
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I'm going to start this article out bluntly, I have bad luck when it comes to boys.

Yes, I know I'm 18 and I have plenty of time to meet my soulmate and I need to focus on myself and what not. You can't imagine how many times I've gotten that speech, but I mean come on, a girl has a right to want to be loved right?

I sit here and think, every person in my family met their spouse in high school, and here I am staring my future as a cat lady right in the eyes. My high school years were spent mostly alone because the boys that went to my school were less than interested in being in relationships, but I'm not complaining I was probably better off not getting myself involved.

But now I am a freshman in college and the game is changing. I am very independent, I've been that way for quite some time now. Personal experiences have taught me that I don't need anyone to get to where I'm heading. When I was living at home, I stuck by that but now things are switching up. Ever since I moved to Morgantown I have ached for someone to take care me and be a form of support when I need it, considering I am all alone here. Part of my independence came from my family, specifically my cousin Whitney, she has been one of the biggest influences on me and taught me how to be strong. (Thank you and I love you btw) FaceTime calls aren't the same as sleepovers and I miss her life lessons more than ever.

Back to the point, I'm weak here at WVU and have spent five weeks searching for comfort. The only problem about searching for comfort in a place where 29,175 people also live is there are 29,174 chances of being hurt. Comfort could be compared to a drug, you get a dose and you crave more, in my case I'm addicted. College is the time where we are supposed to figure out the rest of our lives, right? Won't be the person that I end up marrying a large part of the rest of my life? Will it be someone I have known for awhile? Will it be someone I've just recently met? Could it be someone I have yet to meet? I guess thats one of the things about college, mostly everything comes as a surprise.

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