QUEZON City, Philippines (January 20) – This is an open letter to all teenagers who feel that they have found the one.
To the Teenagers,
Was it really love that you felt? Aren’t you too young to be in love and commit yourself to someone? Where should you spend your time instead?
- Family- the people who really love you and accepted you. They were the people you should have put first but was on the last of your priority list. The people you thought antagonist of your love story that lasted for months. You thought they didn’t know anything about love and you feel misunderstood. They may seem wrong to you but one day, you’ll realize, you had a fight because they cared so much. You should talk to them. Spend time with them. They deserve cards, surprises, chocolates and flowers more than anyone else.
Source: hercampus.com - Friends. If you have that friend who stayed with you and accepted the challenge as a third wheel on your dates, and if he/she stayed closer when you need someone to cry on because of heartache, then he/she is worth keeping. Spend time with these people who witnessed your stupidity but laughed on it and stayed with you. Sometimes, they too, have heartache to share, but you were busy being in love and they don’t want to burden you so they’d rather keep it themselves. Be a friend to your friend!
- School. There were school days when you feel like staying on your pajamas and not going anywhere. There were times when you hitched group meetings and went on a date rather. You were also running late every morning because you spend your night giggling while chatting, texting, calling, or video calling your special someone.
Let me remind you. When you study, something will add up to your knowledge, thus, when pop quiz came up, you got an advantage. When you study, you’re blasting confetti to your family name and making the clan proud. Let this be the way you make up with people who spend for your education. Study hard or you might regret that you didn’t give your best. It could have been you who was receiving honors. Don’t waste an opportunity. Isn’t it nice to be labeled with beauty and brains?
- Skills. The time that you put with your special someone was wasted because of a reason that you still think, figuring how it can be reasonable, was wasted. It should have been put to something else like your passion or skill. You should have developed that and not how you could make an effective pick up line.
- You. There is more out there. You haven’t seen the world yet. Don’t think that you know everything. What you know is just the page one of every experience. Explore and make the best out of yourself.
You were too young to be broken and too fragile to be left alone. Please. Make yourself strong. When you’re complete, when you’re not broken anymore, when you figured out how to be happy in simple things out of your sometimes simple and plain but mostly complicated life, don’t rush, love will find its way.
(written by Karen Llacuna, edited by Jay Paul Carlos, additional research by Lovely Ann Cruz)
