13303.) Hi again everyone. This is a followup to secret #3025, which seemed to offend a rather lot of you. So I'll clear up some misconceptions that arose in reblogs:
1. A few people thought I’m the person who runs blogsecret… this isn’t true. She seems much nicer than me.
2. I am a 23 year-old male, not a teenage girl.
3. Yes, when I was a teenager I thought I was in love, on more than one occasion.
4. I’m a romantic… if I didn’t believe in love, I wouldn’t have taken offense to everyone throwing its name around so loosely, I wouldn’t have had any reason to write all of that. I believe that love is the one thing everyone should be striving for, but also something that rarely comes more than once in a lifetime, if at all. On blogsecret, it seems like the word is just used in place of “really, really like.” Maybe there should be a more popular word between “like” and “love.”
5. To those asking why I read blogsecret… for the same reason a lot of you do, I was waiting for my secret to show up.
6. And a ton of you took what I wrote to mean that I don’t believe teenagers can ever fall in love. Of course they can, but I do think it’s unbelievably rare. And if I said that in my initial post, every single teenager reading it and being offended by it would think “Oh, nevermind, I’m just in the .01% exception, phew.” And that’s not a good way to get a point across.
Sorry if I hurt your feelings, but I do stand by what I said and I think the tendency to exaggerate feelings with the L word leads to a much more painful heartbreak, which is blogsecret’s M.O. it seems.
#3025 was the shit. REAL.
