The First Mistake in Love
Looking through your journals can be therapeutic. You understand what you did wrong and learnt from experience. I was going through my teenage journal and came across this one page where I admit to having a crush on someone when I was 13. I was a self-aware teen, hitting puberty and questioning my looks like any other. When I read what followed after I befriended him, today I would say he was aware of my feelings, exploited and manipulated me into believing he was a friend and made me do his work for him. I was a fool to think all that would get me into his good books and let him. It may look all naive and silly now, but I continued this one-way friendship for years till I could finally let it go and accept that he was not a decent human being. It was okay to stop being friends by choice. Why am I sharing this? Because most of my readers are teens who are going through their first crushes, puberty, heartbreak and everything else. It's important to know and realise that the portraya...