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T<\/span><\/p>he first time a cute girl ever smiled at me, I found myself head-over-heels in love. <\/span>\n\nA <\/span>smile<\/span><\/a> is all it took. I was in school, enjoying a free period chatting with my desk partner when we made eye contact. Her first instinct was to wave and smile at me. My first instinct was to freeze while clutching at my chest so that my rapidly beating heart wouldn\u2019t fall out. Much like any other 14-year-old, I always longed for a pretty girl to like me. <\/span>\n\nThis was the first time I\u2019d ever felt this way and thanks to Maxy, my <\/span>only friend<\/span><\/a> in class, I was introduced to that girl. Her name, for the purpose of this tale, will be TT. <\/span>\n\nEveryday after school, we would meet near the gate and take the longest route back home. TT was my first <\/span>girlfriend<\/span><\/a> and everything about her seemed to amuse me. The way her hair smelt, that she wore an elastic band around her wrist, the way she said my name, and especially the way she laughed. To me, each passing day was an opportunity to learn something new about her. She liked the colour black, pop music, <\/span>Chinese food<\/span><\/a>, and her favourite movie was <\/span>Twilight<\/span><\/i>. For a reason I can\u2019t explain, all these tiny facts about her mattered tremendously to me. Every night we would sneakily call each other and talk until one of us fell asleep. Somehow, we\u2019d still have things to talk about the next day.<\/span>\n\nTogether our love blossomed on the last bench of our <\/span>classroom<\/span><\/a>. We held hands in the corridor, shared our dabbas during <\/span>recess<\/span><\/a>, pretended to lose textbooks to sit together, and grew increasingly affectionate. This was the of kind of love driven by impulses, hormones, immature promises, and the constant blip of Norepinephrine when we saw each other.<\/span>\n\nOur immaturity was the foundation of our relationship. We\u2019d fight tooth and nail over petty matters and later make up with Dairy Milk chocolates and blush-inducing apologies. We often gave each other <\/span>handwritten<\/span><\/a> notes and tiny gifts to make each other smile, on a whim. <\/span>\n\nWe weren\u2019t caught up in trying to figure out what this relationship meant or where it was headed. Consumed by our infatuation and trivialities, our only difficulties lay in deciding where to eat next, or which movie to watch. <\/span>\n\nIt was all sunshine and rainbows until we wandered into the forbidden forest that is the adult dating world. <\/span>\n\nIn a dance competition for the annual day, TT was paired with another boy. Jealousy took over me and we began to squabble. She wrote me a letter and left a Dairy Milk on my desk. I did not respond to her note \u2013 though I kept the Dairy Milk and preserved the wrapper. We stopped talking. The next year, her father got a transfer and she moved cities. <\/span>\n\nOn her last day at school, I gave her a Dairy Milk. <\/span>\n\nToday, even as I cringe along with my friends as a mushy Dairy Milk ad plays on TV, I smile secretly. It reminds me of the days of simple, carefree romance. Puppy love \u2013 as they call it \u2013 is amazing because you never overthink your actions. Unburdened by responsibilities and priorities or experience, you\u2019re able to let your <\/span>emotions<\/span><\/a> run wild and face adversity with love. <\/span>\n<\/span>\n

Puppy love \u2013 as they call it \u2013 is amazing because you never overthink your actions. Unburdened by responsibilities and priorities or experience, you\u2019re able to let your emotions run wild and face adversity with love.<\/blockquote>\n\nMaybe it wasn\u2019t love, but whatever it was it leaves you longing for more in an age when most relationships are easily labelled \u201ccomplicated\u201d. <\/span>\n\nTo borrow some wisdom from <\/span>Shrek<\/span><\/i>, adult dating is like an onion \u2013 it has many layers, and the deeper you go, the more you will cry. The first layer involves past relationships and <\/span>emotional baggage<\/span><\/a> that you end up carrying like a lost coolie. The second layer is when you run headfirst into the brick wall that is built with the soul-searching relationship questions we ask ourselves. <\/span>Why are we dating? What\u2019s the future of this relationship? Do we even love one another? <\/span><\/i>And then there\u2019s the emotional numbness that comes from indulging in one fling after the other. <\/span>\n\nHaving all this rattling around in your brain makes you wonder if you\u2019re doomed to be perennially single, flitting from relationship to relationship. <\/span>\n\nAs a teenager, dating someone is free from all of these complications. You are too young to question your impulses and feelings. All you want is to meet your love and spend forever with them, just laughing and fooling around. <\/span>\n\nAn essay titled <\/span>\u201cWhy Teenage Love Is The Purest, Most Honest Form Of Connection\u201d<\/span><\/a> says, \u201cTeenage love has the ability to be the rawest, most simplified version of love we will ever experience… The younger version of yourself was clear of the barriers we are now navigating as adults in the dating world. So, maybe, being young and dumb and in love was actually the smartest, most honest thing we\u2019ve ever done.\u201d<\/span>\n\nToday, dating requires more thought than buying a car, what with this problem of having a life to create, personal goals to achieve, and bills to pay. Maybe adult relationships are difficult to maintain, but the sweet, addictive memories of puppy love keep me going. Not every relationship needs to be dissected like a lab specimen from our school days. <\/span>\n\nAll TT and I offered each other was some adoration. While we weren\u2019t exactly <\/span>Romeo<\/span><\/a> and Juliet, we left each other with great memories. Especially the time where we \u201cbroke up\u201d five times on the same day. And made up with Dairy Milks, of course. <\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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