| | When I learned one of my youngest cousins had a girlfriend, it was a total surprise. I didn't know he was that kind of person yet...aren't they still in that phase where cooties exist?
Then I remembered that he was in 8th grade, and that he wasn't 7 anymore, but 14. I missed his last birthday party because of work. I hate letting moments like this slip away from me, because then so does reality!
I thought, well, this couldn't really be what it seems to be. So I do the facebook check.  I get info from prying sources, like Jordy, lol, and see what it really is all about. So far, so legit...I guess. I thought back to when I was his age and then it hit me. That's when I had MY first boyfriend too, and I thought it was all that and everything more. Forgive the cheese, but I took it seriously! As naive as I was, I wanted to make it last, and when it didn't, I was upset. I felt feelings I'd never felt before.
My initial afterthoughts just brushed his relationship aside, but when I threw myself back into his perspective, I found myself in that "grown up" mentality, and shook my head at myself. I don't really know how to explain it, but I thought of this, one of my other cousin's favorite quotes:
"When adults say, 'Teenagers think they are invincible' with that sly,
stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We
need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We
think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, we
cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and
manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of
losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our
parts cannot begin and cannot end, as so it cannot fail."
Enough said.
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