Following the Crowd

I found this picture online, and I thought that it was very profound.

I realize that I am better at making friends and meeting people than I was when I was younger. This is amazing for me to realize, because I was under the impression that I was getting worse. When I was in high school, I had my first real crush. I was so over the top, because we were friends, but I realized that he did not like me back. :( I continued to flirt with him anyways, until he moved out of the city. I looked around, and noticed other girls with boyfriends. I noticed friends hanging out, giving gifts, making plans, studying together, and wondered why that wasn't happening to me. I did have great friends in High School. Don't get me wrong, but it was more along the lines of 'friendly' than actual friends. I had one "Best Friend", and one or two people that I spent time with occasionally outside of school. I have noticed that I was different since about fourth or fifth grade. Even though people liked me, they never seemed to like me enough to ask me to hang out with them. As I entered college, I had a different problem. I had people that wanted to hang out with me, but we would stop hanging out after the semester ended. Either that, or they were the "wrong crowd". Eventually, I found my niche with the people in my major, since we had multiple classes together each semester. It made me feel good to realize that I finally found people that I could relate to. I had my first kiss just after my 21st birthday, and was in my first relationship September 2011. Since then, I have been in a few almost relationships, and one really amazing relationship. 

That being said, as I go through life, I meet people and they help me grow. The reason that I wrote this here is that I want to remind myself that even though I don't have people texting me 24/7 or "liking" my statuses on Facebook, doesn't mean that I am unloved, or unpopular.