Life Currently

So recently, there has been a lot on my mind. New semester. New major. (Kinda) New job. And everything is kind of blurring together. However, the one thing that has stayed consistent is the thing that I don't want to. The lack of a significant other.

Now, before you roll your eyes, this is not a pity party blog post about how I don't have a girlfriend and nobody likes me. For now, I'm pretty content being single. That doesn't mean I'm not looking, it just means I'm not about to desperately fall in love with the next girl that gives me attention.

However, one of the main reasons that this is such a prevalent issue in my life is because of my environment. I go to Michigan State, one of the largest concentrations of beautiful women my age that could potentially be my future. And not only that, but in my smaller circle of good friends, relationships are a constant topic of conversation. Whether it's just about a new girl that a friend has a grade-school crush on, or a girl that just broke a friend's heart, we always seem to discuss "the girl situation" with each other at some point or another during the week. It's just an unavoidable topic.

Which kind of leads me to the point of this post. Here we are, in college, having some of the best times of our life, and yet we continuously come back to this aspect of our lives that really just ends up being the focal point of a lot of stress. I've tried many times (usually at the beginning of a new semester) to have the mindset of "let's just have fun this semester, do well in school, and not worry about girls at all," but it never seems to work. It's as if there's some driving force that comes alive any time there is a hint of attraction. Some sort of excitement, that maybe this girl is "the one," for lack of a better term.

But why am I trying to find her? As illustrated so perfectly by one of my favorite chick flicks of all time, (500) Days of Summer, when the right girl comes along, I'll know, and so will she. Up until then, it's all a series of events that lead up to the point that you finally meet. But what's the rush? As proven by previous relationships, crushes, and fleeting attractions, finding that right person isn't something that you're going to have to fight so hard for that you're pulling your own hair out. When it happens it happens, and until then we should enjoy what we're doing, focus on attainable goals that we have set, and just have fun.

That sounds so much easier when I write it out.

I guess this is why I like movies like (500) Days of Summer and shows like How I Met Your Mother. As fictional as they might be, they give hope that what I'm doing right now is just something that everyone does, and they bring to light the fact that until that right girl comes along, I should be having fun in life, not stressing about the small stuff, and in the words of the great Jimmy Mac, "Live it up."

That's all for tonight. I promise I usually won't be so deep with my posts, but I warned you in the first post, this blog is going to be about whatever's going through my mind at the time, and that's just what happens to be going on in my life right now.