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Alright. One thing that has me pissed, definitely so. The mentality in high school that you HAVE to have a romantic interest in somebody. "No" is not an answer with these people, and instead of "Do you like somebody" it's always "Who do you like". It's infuriating. I've been the youngest in my class for years now. Having skipped third grade, I've been a year behind from that, and with a summer birthday that's another. What they don't realize is that it is possible to go through school WITHOUT being starry-eyed all the time. It's actually sad too, because I realize that other people don't have anybody they;re interested in and they're pressured to "date" someone they don't even like for appearances' sake. It's a bad lesson for life, one that I think spawns from the media (the apparent root of all evil nowadays) showing all of these celebrities who never seem to be single. That and they change "toys" every two weeks, even the marriages seem to last a few months at best, and that's reflected in school life too. On that last note I see protests to gay marriage violating the "sanctity of marriage." Beg pardon, sir, but I think it's a lot worse marrying off to a new mate every six months. But I digress. There's this whole...idea that if you don't have somebody hanging on your arm you aren't whatever the hell they call it these days, and it makes me sick.

And another thing. People who go around trying to hook up other people. Now some have a genuine good intent behind it, but with others it's just plain selfish desire to play house with other people! I can't go three days without somebody saying "You should go out with [insert one of my friends' names here]" to me. It needs to stop, at least to me. Maybe some people enjoy it, all I know is it's irritating.

One last point, and this is the bane of my life here. (Warning: The following is based on my pure experience alone and should not reflect unduly upon any present individuals.) Why is it that girls have to be so obvious and yet secretive about things? Like...They drop hints. They keep you guessing, sometime unintentional, sometimes deliberate. But the main thing is: you can't know whether or not your suspicions are true. This is a real irritant to me because part of my whole philosophy is "When you don't know a lot about something, learn all you can before trying it." This isn't possible when you get mixed signals and subtle hints, instead of one of them just coming up to you and saying, "Hi. I really think you are an attractive person. Would you like to get lunch sometime?" This messing with our brains- When is it going to end?

I could go on, but by now this should be getting a tad overblown. My God, though, this is just so infuriating.