School Break-ups and Heart breaks

Ah, alas, a growing topic and an issue being encountered by a growing number of teens not only in America alone, but maybe wider on the global scale. Relationships or to be exact, boy-girl relationships and a major issue plaguing young adults today, especially with the ever stressful school life always lurking around us. So what I am trying to drive at is why they even commit to a relationship at such a tender age when they know that is about sure to never work out….

When we look at today’s students, we can see that there is a lot of love in the air, or maybe it’s just the ever growing hormones. We see a lot of these relationships blooming in secondary school and it just becomes greater in Junior Colleges. The thing is that, how many of these relationships actually do make it? In secondary school, say at the end of secondary 4, when one goes to a JC in one part of Singapore and the other ends up in a polytechnic in another distant part in Singapore, will they realistically be able to carry on their relationship? Sure they may have the weekends, but our raging hormones are bound to seek out another significant other to spend our school days with. Then, the boys will have to move on to the army for the next 1 and a half to 2 years. Will he really expect his girlfriend to wait eagerly for him every weekend?

Yes, I may sound very cynical about this whole relationship thing but I really do feel that by committing to a relationship at such an age is bound to give you a heart break sooner or later. In today’s competitive society, where getting to interact with my family members is a rare chance, there is limited chance of building a strong relationship. I think that its for the best that we keep our options open and not quickly jump into things just from one burst of emotion from our hearts. Yes, we are bound to have our crushes and so forth, but it would be best that we avoid making to much hash over it.