Name: Crushes
Uploaded: 2017-11-21T14:25:59.000Z
Duration: 7 min 27 s
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Past simple

I think as a kid, I was brainwashed into thinking that I needed to be romantically attracted to someone.

Sentences with would like

My classmates would be like, "hey Dom, who do you like?"

"I'll tell you who I like if you tell me who you like!"

And I'm thinking, I don't necessarily like anyone in particular

And as a kid most of us haven't really had much time to know a lot of people,

so my choices were limited to pretty much whoever was in my school, more specifically in my classrooms.

"Wait, what, who do you like? Oh, I got baited."

So as a kid, I thought it was mandatory to just have someone in mind to admire.

Obviously when you're young, you don't exactly know yet of what your personal criteria is of why you like someone.

Growing up you develop these things based on experiences,

and over time you tend to narrow your tastes down

to certain traits that the person must have in order for you to be interested.

Do they have a sense of humor, do they like animals,

do they play video games, are they as weeaboo as you,

do they have a self-esteem issue that forces them to undermine others

in order to validate themselves under self-worth?

It's up to you to determine these things, so that if you were to pursue someone with those traits

then it's safe to assume that you'd probably get along.

But when we were kids, let's be honest. We were shallow assholes.

When I was a kid, I tended to like the popular girls.

Not like the bratty cliché "everyone is trash beneath my feet" mean girls,

but the girls that most guys also had a crush on.

I didn't really have a reason to talk to her, so I pretty much admired her from afar.

I remember one time, the teacher had us read from the textbook out loud to the class,

and once it was Melody's turn I gave her, like, 200% of my attention.

As she was reading I was following along and came across a word that I've never seen,

but once she got to the word, "Fahrenheit"

and I was so surprised and impressed that it further emphasized my attraction to intelligence.

"Dom how could you not know the word 'Fahrenheit'?"

second of all the rest of the world uses Celsius, all right? Get out of here.

Eventually after realizing that I had zero chance with Melody

I eventually developed a crush on another girl...

She was the fastest girl in all the running activities in PE and was actually faster than most of the guys.

During recess she usually played sports and other games with guys,

because a lot of the girls weren't into the games we played.

I had more interactions with her because we were all kind of in the same group of friends who played during recess.

Later on we all find out she had a crush on Liam who was also one of my friends.

And you'd think I'd be upset or jealous of Liam, but looking back

Liam was a pretty good-looking guy and also not a douchebag, so,

yeah, yeah good choice, not, not bad, no big deal. I got over it pretty quick.

She was a bit different from the girls I've liked.

She wasn't part of the popular group. She wasn't the most intelligent. She wasn't outstandingly athletic.

She was more or less kind of average, but I had a crush on her.

I was surprised at the fact that not many other guys liked her,

considering I was so used to being in competition with pretty much the whole class population.

But with Stephanie it seemed like I was the only guy running.

It eventually became public news that I liked Stephanie because of the numerous school dances that occurred,

and every time I asked her and only her to dance.

I felt like that's pretty much what dances essentially were in elementary school: confession opportunities.

If two people were dancing, they were instantly shipped together.

"Hey man, I feel like you're using the video to project your inner hate on a personal matter.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure Stephanie knew I liked her.

I don't remember properly confessing it because I was a little bitch at the time, and I didn't really have the conf-

but despite knowing, nothing really progressed between us and for good reason, too.

We didn't really have that much in common, or [have] any familiar things to talk about.

At the beginning of grade six I had to move to a new school and left behind a lot of close friends.

Near the end of the school year, I decided to visit my old school again and see my friends and teachers.

By that time I went through puberty and although I didn't get a major growth spurt,

I did develop this sexy voice that you'll hear today, heh heh.

Although school was still happening, it was the end of the year, so not many activities were happening in class.

I spent the day at the school and when it came time for recess,

I decided to look for Stephanie, whom I didn't see in the class I stayed in

My friends were egging me on to talk to her and make some moves

and I was actually feeling more confident to do so.

Moving to the new school helped me build some interpersonal skills

so I was like "yeah, I'll talk to Stephanie, let's go!"

And I don't know what happened with Stephanie over the months, or if it was just the heat of the moment,

but she...kinda flirted back with me, whoo-hoo-hoo!

I can't remember exactly what we talked about but it ended with a kiss on the cheek, a phone number in my head,