the complicated life of an American teenager.

I like to think I’m a pretty friendly person. In general I consider myself at least mostly nice, and when people interpret my niceness or friendliness as…something other than just that, it really bothers me. Has that ever happened to you? Okay so I tend to be kind of outgoing and sometimes (a lot of times) a loud person. That is my personality. But, sometimes, people read it as me being flirty.  I am not a flirty person whatsoever.

 

Yeah I don't do that.

       

     You know how people always say “be yourself. Don’t act differently around different people.”  I find that incredibly annoying because you HAVE to act differently sometimes! Not to be all “someone likes me, nah na na na na” but I’ll just put it out there that someone does, because it has to do with what I’m talking about. Okay, so this person happens to be very nice and is someone with whom I would love to be friends. (Look at that grammar people. It was so correct. haha) But anyway, I only want to be friends. They might, *ahem* not necessarily know that. I really don’t want to act any differently around them than I would any of my other friends, but I also don’t want to give them the wrong idea. For instance: When I text I usually use LOTS of smiley faces and things like that, and I ask lots of questions because…well because I just do. But I have to be Suuuuper careful that I don’t make it seem like I like the person more than I do. Leading people on is something that I’m basically paranoid about. So I don’t even know what to do! 

       I’m having so much trouble with this because I don’t want to make it seem like the person annoys me by sending really short messages or not being super friendly, but I don’t want to seem really interested in talking to them. Because how do I know how they’re taking the things I say? It’s so annoying! Partly because they’re really cool and I do actually want to talk to them without like dating them!

     Life is so confusing isn’t it? It’s getting really old—having to analyze everything I say before I say it so nothing will get taken the wrong way. And never texting him first even if I want to ask a question or something because that would show too much interest.  Haha this is the complicated life of an American teenager for you! (That was sarcasm because it’s not actually that complicated, more like pathetic FIY)

         So yeah, that was the "interesting" bit of news I had to share today. I just realized that you may have expected to get something out of this, so here you go: Don’t act differently around people to get attention or to make people think you’re cooler than you really are (because you’re already so freaking cool you couldn’t possible do better) but act carefully so you don’t make any mistakes that you could have easily avoided. 

This is absolutely the sweetest song because it is all about letting God choose your prince charming, and how perfect is that? Please please take the 3 minutes or whatever and watch it. XO Charlotte