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The Wonder Of Crushes

Written by Evan Bailyn on 06/21 at 11:15 AM

Having a crush is one of our original human impulses - it is the feeling of seeing in another person characteristics that compliment your being so well that you feel impelled to join their life with yours. It is a strong, passionate longing for a partnership with a person that has something you don’t have and could never possess. It is a magnetic desire for an image of beauty fetched from youth. It is a flood of emotion so mentally overwhelming that it affects your physical being.

Thinking of your crush directly causes a rush in your chest and a noticeable increase in your heartbeat. The tragedy of knowing that your crush might not reciprocate your feelings fills you with depression and hopelessness. All you can do is fantasize about your crush becoming a part of your life, of linking your experiences with theirs, of assimilating their magical existence into your mundane world.

Having a crush is a euphoric, desperate, compulsive state of being. It is truly a life-affirming experience. 

298 Comments

Posted by Jazmin on 10/02 at 03:13 PM

I have a crush on the UPS guy as well. He seems to flirt with me as well. He is adorable. How can you find out if that other person might have a crush on you as well?

Posted by Nai on 10/07 at 11:04 AM

Mine’s terrible. I’m fourteen.
I’m in this group of four friends, made up of two girls and two guys. I’m a girl, by the way.
We’ve always been up and aboveboard calling each other “hubby”, “lover”, “boyfriend”, “darling” and whatever nicknames there are. But recently I started having this humongous crush on my “lover” A and well, he (A) has this crush on the other girl (B).

So.... I’m really freaking confused, because B(she’s my best friend) tells me that well, A likes me/liked me once. But from what I see is that A usually chooses to talk to B… A used to be extra hyper around me but now he only screams B’s name. Yea… I’m confused. Then, er...B likes the other guy C. So basically its I like A, A likes B (but A used to like me), and B likes C and C remains neutral.

How complicated. Add that we call each other affectionate names....

I’M CONFUSED!

Posted by Blind Girl on 10/10 at 05:18 PM

Once again, it is really great to hear that i am not the only one with these exact crush /symptoms/problems. I’m 18 and i like this 16 year old guy (i know werid but w/e). See i try to talk to my friends about him, cuse i’ve liked him for about a month now, but they always just say i’m a stalker-that i should just go up and talk to them. they don’t understand that for some reason, its just plain terrifying to go and talk to someone you have a crush on. i’ll think about him late at night, and try to analyze what really makes me so self concious and afraid to talk to him. i mean he’s just another human being who happens to be a boy that’s cute right? but, even when i say that over and over again to myself, i still panic on the inside whenever i see him in the hallways at school. i have a class with him and on some days i become very confident thinking oh i’ll definetly go up and smile, and talk to him today in class...” but when it comes time, and i see him across the room, i just die. i mean, i can’t even hold my gaze long enough to smile at him when’s he’s looking-then again neither can he. so it’s hard to tell. when i think about the way i react to crushes, it makes me feel pathetic and embarrassed. i see him in class every other day, so on those days, i make sure i look extra special for him in class!-ugh i feel like a loser. we do the looking and quickly looking away at each other thing-but i’m still not sure...i guess i’m doomed to have another failed crush.

Posted by Stephanie T. on 10/19 at 05:12 PM

My feelings for my guy are indescribeable. They are so strong… so fierce and powerful that he is constantly in my mind and my voice quivers whenever I speak to him. I’m fourteen years old and I just started highschool. I was told that it was normal for a teenager, such as myself to feel strong emotions about things and other people. I haven’t seen him in several months- I only see him in my dreams. He haunts me but pleasantly, because although he claims he doesn’t feel the same way, I believe someday we will have someting. This is again, our feelings I cannot express through writing. I believe that God has a plan for me and my guy. Perhaphs years from now, we will have something. I believe this because God always tells me the truth and in my dreams, I know He is trying to send me a message. People call me crazy for thinking this but, I think not. This is my first very stong crush and I’m not letting go. Not yet. I’m giving up on my guy.

Posted by confused on 10/20 at 01:39 AM

Hi....maybe someone can help me...I have this big crush on a guy who is 9 years younger than me and works for my husband...is driving me crazy...I met him at the company’s picnic a couple of months back and I can’t stop thinking about him and sometimes I call my husband knowing that my crush will pick up the phone and I’ll have an excuse to make small talk with him....I feel so guilty...and I was wondering if there is anything out there to get rid off these weird feelings.

Posted by help me on 10/25 at 01:20 PM

why do i get crushes? i am married? is it wrong to have feelings for someone else as strong as a crush? help

Posted by boy magnet on 11/01 at 08:00 PM

well i dont know where to start oh, there’s this really cute boy i met in kindergarten know i am in 4th grade but i still havent told him that i like him.i dont know how to. last year my friend said she is going to tell him i said “ok only if im not here”.
but i don’t think she ever told him. im thinking about callng my best friend she likes him too.im going to ask her if she can ask him if he likes me and tell him i
like him. i hope thats is a good idea.i look at him every year in the year book.i really school toghether in 6th grade. i also hope we are in the same class nextyear.

Posted by Kaskade on 11/13 at 03:03 PM

theres this person that i like, but i know i will never be able to get into a relationship with them, as i dont even know the person; and also i know that there is no possible chance i will ever have a relationship with this person; it fills my heart with depression, ans yes hopelessness. Fantasizing keeps me alive, but its never enough............

Posted by Samantha on 11/18 at 03:46 PM

Hi my crush is Demitri Boyce

Posted by Anonymous on 11/27 at 06:45 PM

There’s this one guy I like… he goes to my school… he’s extremely cute and has the sweetest personality. He’s popular with the girls because he’s nice and hot… he’s talked to me once or twice, but only a “Hello, what’s up?”. We’ve never had a conversation. I feel so horrible because I’ve been crushing on him since the first day I saw him.... the problem is that, so has every other girl. I haven’t told anyone I like him because I’m afraid that if it’s temporary, I would have told someone something that could wind up being embarrasing… latley he hasen’t noticed me at all, even when I try to speak to him.. and all of these girls are always complimenting him, telling him what I’ve known from the very begginging.... It’s like I want him to be all mine but that’s so ridicouls. I don’t know what to do and it’s breaking my heart. =[

Posted by Analicia Alvarado on 12/03 at 07:19 PM

I can’t believe I have crush on someone! But I do. He is sooooo NOT my type though. The good news is that I can have my crush and not feel guilty because both of us are in serious relationships....so NOTHING CAN OR EVER WILL HAPPEN BETWEEN US. I’m happy, he’s happy, and I can still look w/out anyone involved knowing anything.(yeah...naughty, I know...but I’m human) wink

Posted by Analicia Alvarado on 12/03 at 07:26 PM

Reply to helpme on 10/25...don’t fret. I think that as long as you don’t pursue, then it’s ok. Or if they try to pursue, you stop them, b/c of the love you have for your husband/family.

Posted by kat on 01/01 at 02:00 PM

i dont know how to cope with my crush, i’m 15 yrs old and i have liked this boy for 2 years and i haven’t had much luck with boys and i’m put off making a move or talking to him becasue we are good mates and work together. he is a year younger than me but it doesnt bother me, i just dont want to get hurt or teased by other people. if anyone can help please tell me

Posted by kat on 01/01 at 02:09 PM

i have a crush on a good mate who i also work with and i have liked him for 2 years and i don’t no what to do with it anymore. i am 15 years old and i haven’t had any “good” relationships with boys i’ve always gone for the bad boy who never really cared but no i have opened and discovered feelings i dont know what to do anymore. i’m scared to talk to him incase i get hurt or teased by other people.

Posted by stephie marie on 01/12 at 08:48 PM

ok...so...i been going to this new school for about 3 1/2 months and for about 2 of them, i have had a major crush on this guy. i am a junior and he is a really cute senior in highschool!! hes a basketball player and whenever there is a home game, i have to go, just 2 c him play! I have him in one of my classes but i have never gotten up the nerve to talk to him! I did put a bag of hershey kisses with a note on it, that said “hey staulker”, and some other stuff, on his truck while he was at basketball practice, and waited to c wat he would say, but he never said nething. i didnt sign my name but i kno he knew it was me, because we have played really weird games of “lets follow me all over town in our vehicles for no reason” and he did follow me home once and sat at the end of the alley honking and yelling hey....c, staulker (but not in a creepy way, more of a cute adorable waywinkbut i still dont kno if he likes me 4 sure. at the bball games, when he isnt playing, he is always looking at me and smiling. i dont exactly kno wat thats supposed to mean!! guys r really confusing!! i have had other crushes in my life, but not like this!! i dont kno wat to do. i really like him, but i just dont kno how to really tell him. any advice??? also, im really sorry if this is confusing, im ina hurry...on my way to a bball game!!!

Posted by Meels on 01/26 at 03:13 PM

I’m 13 years old and I’ve had a crush on a guy for about two years now, but I haven’t even mustered up the courage to talk to him for more than five times (haha, I’ve counted - “Excuse me” x2, “Can I borrow a pen?”, “Could you move?”, and “Is that a bass guitar?” in reference to my Fender strat)... and that was just last year. He’s extroverted - very hilarious and brilliant - and I just want to spend a moment to at least talk to him, but I’m so introverted and I don’t know that he sees who I am beyond “the quiet girl”. It also doesn’t help much whatsoever that two of my close friends asked him to sign my yearbook and talk to me last year (not by request, haha!), making it even more obvious that I like him. I barely know him anymore - he’s in none of my classes and we’ve never really talked beyond those five times, which hardly count - but I really want to get to know him. I feel so desperate and pathetic… I think of him constantly but still I’ve barely talked to him. Even just to be his friend would be amazing. My heart pounds so quickly when I get around him, I like him so much but I don’t want him to know he likes me until I’m ready to let him know… He’s everything to me. Crushes are so brilliant, but rejection is like losing a part of yourself. It’s unbearable to think he might not reciprocate my feelings for him.

Posted by Analicia Alvarado on 02/02 at 02:46 PM

This is the real Analicia Alvarado and I have a crush on Herb Garcia.

Posted by Emma on 02/06 at 12:21 AM

So true!

Crushes, the first time i was rejected I was SO depressed! It was horrible! Crushes hurt, but few will say there is anything better then that fluttery feeling you get when you find out your crush likes you!

Posted by James M. Barrie on 02/09 at 04:01 PM

I think my favorite part is that every time I know she is The One: My Future True Love.

Posted by The Big 16 on 02/23 at 10:37 PM

I’m 16, never had a girlfriend, and now have the biggest crush of my life.  I don’t know how to handle it.  my emotions are going crazy and I don’t know how to act around her.  not forgetting to mention I’ve never even spoken to my crush.  anyone got advice?

Posted by joiyus on 03/13 at 04:20 AM

i have a huge crush on my supervisor/boss. iv seen him evry tuesday for the last year and lately we’ve become close friends. im 18, hes 21 but because he’s not like any his age i think hes put off by the fact that im still in school… he compliments a lot of me and i like being there for him. he’s recently got a new job and im having withdrawl symptoms :( im gutless so much that i dont know what to do anymore, i think il tell him wat i feel and if i get rejected, i know i had a shot…

Posted by Sai on 04/26 at 05:10 PM

I have a humongous crush on this guy and I think he also like me but i’m not sure.I’m usually very social but when it comes to him I’m very,very shy and nervous.What do I do?

Posted by LuvsHim4evr on 04/29 at 09:52 PM

omg i think the guy i like might like me too. I just have one problem: i get this feeling he’s flirting with other girls. Er, at least i think. Sometimes i worry too much, im practiacally obsessed about him. Which isnt good. He’s just so.... irresistable! Anyways, i get this weird thing; sometimes, if he’s really really close to me, my eye twitches, but i dont think, and hope, its not noticable… I AM SOOOO LOVESTUCKED! i luvv him… and i caught a few tips that he is flirting… YESS!

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