Being a junior-high student, the center of most things significant that happen among my peers have to do with relationships. Relationships....hmm. A funny topic for the middle-schooler. No one seems to really know what a relationship really is because there is no default, no standard, no pre-set idea of what a relationship is. Relationships mean different things for different people. Take the word "friend," for example. A friend, to me, is a person who always has your back and who you can tell all your problems and thoughts to, without worry of gossip or judgement. For others, a "friend" is that one girl or guy you sit with at lunch or work with in math class. Or maybe that one girl who you don't really like but you hang out with anyway so you aren't alone.
So, with all of these variations on one simple word, how are we supposed to know where we stand with anyone else? Good question. Things get even more complicated when we expand upon "friend" and include "boyfriend" and "girlfriend," not to mention the even iffier "guyfriend" and "galfriend" or "girl-friend." Confusing, right? No wonder middle-school social lives are such a mess. That's why it's so important for each individual to define what these relationships should be before they come to a point where a definition is needed. Are you willing to settle for a "boyfriend" or "girlfriend" who is just a make-out buddy or should a "boyfriend" be one with which you have a complex emotional relationship? Or is a make-out buddy just a "guyfriend" or "galfriend?"
I think it's important for both people in any relationship, whether a friendship or a romantic relationship, to know what the other one expects. Not saying that you should sit down with the girl you just met in science class and have a "heart-to-heart" about the boundaries of your relationship or something ridiculous like that. I just think that communication and COMMON SENSE is important if you're going to come out of the scary world of junior high with something resembling a social life.**
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Monday, September 1, 2008
Relationships...hmm...
Posted by Taylor Yates at 5:40 PM
Labels: love, relationships, teenagers
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Pretty deep stuff taylor
That's just how I roll. lol what do you think of it?
i bet you grow up to be a phscytrist or something
lol that's actually something i'm really interested in, and this is one topic that pretty much defines junior high.
I would totally agree with that.... It seems like a sort of teen obsession.
I Picture tay as more of a like mind reader/ advice columnist. lol
hey have you reedemed your spanish rep yet
Make out buddy? where did that term come from? lollol rotflmaoshiac!!!!!!
pardon my randomness im in a hyper mood and that phrase just struck me funny.
Kyle - Yes, I think so. I have been on my very, very best behavior. lol
Joanna - Mind reader? What the heck?? Like one of those creepy carnival ladies with the towel on their head and the crystal ball? no way! lol jk i know what you mean.
I'm pretty sure it's a mainstream phrase. but if not, i made it up. lol
yes talyor your new name from now on will be fourtune teller lol
ok great let's go with something more authentic like Esmerelda the Fortune Teller.....sounds good. haha i like it. any better ideas for my double identity?
lol i thought your double identity was jorydn knight.
omg wow no i didnt mean like a forture teller i meant like a psycoanalysis person i just couldnt find that word.
Esmerelda the Prodigy Fourtune Teller lol i like it
she has 100% in spanish now and taylor you should write for the new york times when you whip out stuff like that. One other random fact teenagers that date are more likily to be unstabale and in some case they have memory problems
Joanna - I have many, many identities.....lol jk
Lol yeah that would be a psychoanalysist.
Kyle - Thanks. What do you think of the new design for the blog?
Nile - lol yes I do. And thanks :-)
OMG those are funny facts. Where did you find those?
hey i really like the blog design i think it fits the blog, the only thing is go back to your playlist at imeem and click share, expand the HTML part CLICK AUTO PLAY and then get a new html gadget and copy and paste the code from imeem that way your music plays automaticly if you want to i guess, also you can move it below the posts so it doesn't cut off but that was the only thing i saw that was out of place good job
good song choices for your subject to, do you like my blog i've been switching it around but i think i'm going to keep it how it is.
Thanks!! That's quite the compliment coming from expert bloggers like yourselves. lol I will get that done.
Yeah, LOVE the blog!! Only thing is that your eco-tip is really far down on the page so I think you should move your counter and stuff down and move the tip thingy right below the logo of your blog where it's more likely to be read. Otherwise, looks great!!
yah your background is really cool is it off of blogger or pyzam?
Unstable? OMG no way! Thats a way weird fact!!!
About the autoplay thing: I dissagree. Don't put it on autoplay, because when im playing my own music on iTunes and then the music on the blog comes up its kinda weird. good music choices though. :))))
I took your advise. i move the eip to the top of the blog and took the music off autoplay
Joanna- When are you going to get a blog? never, soon, maybe in a few weeks???/
Joanna - Totally agree on the music thing. It can be cool but it can also be annoying.
Nile - Pyzam. That place rocks. lol
yeah i think you guys are all in my debt for that to,for my blog i pretty much took a pyzam template and pimped it out with my own background, my own colors and my own format
Did I say i was getting a blog? I don't remeber..... but I probly won't make one because I highly doubt that my mum would let me.
I will make an Elfwood account.... then you can all view my drawings and comment on that.
you get up early Joanna
Joanna gets up early??? Mwah ha ha I am up by 5:45 most days but today it was 5:15. I was just too busy to be on my computer.
wait she wasn't up early your clock setting is off because i posted that after 7
Me???? Up early?????/ rotf lmao.
Im a LaPerriere, therefore I do not function before ten AM or later. I got up at noon today.
Taylor, thats mental. Getting up before six thirty on weekdays is just wrong. Even six thirty is pushing it, but I have to get ready for school.
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