Oh Those Boys… | emandg001

We all have guys in our life. And we all know that guys make up a pretty significant part of it. We text them, we flirt with them, we obsess over them and analyze their every move with our friends. But have any of us ever really stopped to think about how guys actually feel about us? I mean sure, we've hoped and prayed that the guy we've liked since kindergarten will suddenly profess his love for us, and we all want to have happy endings, but a lot of girls never really realize that the male species is not quite so distant from our own. Here are some tips I've picked up on from reading countless magazines, teen-confidence books, (haha, I don't really read those on a regular basis) and simply from my own experience:

1) Guys are insecure. YES THEY ARE! They may not be as OCD as girls when it comes to little things, but they still worry about things such as whether or not the girl they like likes them back, how they're going to get up the nerve to ask her to homecoming, ("what if she says no?!") and (occasionally) how their hair looks. Although they may seem like a whole 'nother complex and distant species, they are human, and therefore, have insecureities just like the rest of us.

2) Guys like girls who act like themselves. THIS IS PROVEN. Only a really dumb imbecile wants to date a girl who pretends to be someone entirely different than she really is. Now maybe you're over there thinking, "but what if I don't care?" Maybe you're in love with an imbecile. Well, let me put this into perspective. How would you like it if you totally fell in love with a guy, and then it turned out he wasn't that person? You'd be really sad, not to mention extremely pissed off, am I right? Being yourself is ALWAYS the best choice, because -and we know you've heard this a million times before, but we'll say it again- if a guy doesn't like you for who you truly are, HE DOESN'T DESERVE YOU!! And that's the bottom line. We girls deserve to be loved for who we are, completely and fully.

3) Guys are not that great at starting a conversation. It's the same with all of them. Unless you've found a gem of a guy who will hang on to your every word and participate fully as you talk about clothes and your latest problems with your best friend, OR, you are the kind of girl who can sit for hours talking about football, then you know what I mean. It gets better as you get older, but teenage boys=absolutely horrible conversationalists. When under pressure, they will resort to anything to keep the conversation going. And sometimes they just don't even try. So before you ditch the guy you like because he's too busy playing xbox to answer your texts, remember this fact of life: Guys hate conversation. Unless it's about sports.

I think that's just about all I have to say about guys. There are a million more things I could tell you about my own experiences, but sometimes you just have to live and find out these things for yourself.

Love, love, love,

(love is all you need)

Em<3