We were taught in grade school a lot of things about other boys and girls. Boys picked on the girls they liked, and that boys and girls had cooties. Boys may still pick on the girls they like, but in a much more harsh way. That needs to end.

Let's talk about this cooties aspect.

This has grown and evolved into what we now know as "the feels." The feels are something that anyone between the ages of 16 and 25 avoid like it's the plague apparently. Here is going to be a news flash for a lot of people. The feels aren't bad at all. They're actually probably the best thing you can have.

Developing feelings for someone can be a pain in the ass when it backfires and relates your heartache to being tossed into a volcano. We have all been there. It is absolutely horrific to see the person you adore at that moment in time go to the movies with someone else, post Instagram pictures with someone else, or even simply seeing them texting someone else. We're human. We get jealous. We want what we want and when we want it. Especially in this day and age. But here is your daily reminder, to never give up hope and never stop looking. Because that one person that finally reciprocates the feels that you have for them too, will make every other person you were crushed by feel like it was actually a blessing in disguise that it didn't work out with the others.

Someone will come along one day. The hope and the patience in itself will feel incredibly rewarding for your anguish and your loneliness by the time you can look someone in the eyes, and have the same love and passion looking back into yours. It may not come tomorrow, it may not come next week, next month, or even in this decade.

You may feel like everyone around you is finding their significant other, but trust me and anyone else who can expel from their lungs with honesty that they've found their soulmate, your time will come.

As humans, we want to love and be loved. Some have loved and won, others have won and lost and maybe you've lost one too many times. Don't shut yourself off and treat your emotions and feelings for other people like they're on the same level as the black death that decimated the European and Asian populations.

The next person that comes along that interests you, even in the slightest, ask them out. Send that girl flowers. Buy pizza and call them to come eat the other half even though we all want to be selfish and eat the other half the next day for lunch. Find the person that makes you want to split the pizza with. Find the boy that'll care about you enough to buy you "just because" flowers.

We all struggle in the dating pool. You're not alone. Patience and will are the keys that unlock the door to everlasting satisfaction upon completion.