Hudson Bay High School - Aquila Yearbook (Vancouver, WA)

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Social S peaking 'Love is cz rnany-spfencfourecf tfzincq... by David Brewer Well, it's that time ofthe year again. Spring is upon us, and all the signs are showing through: the flowers are blooming, the sun is shining, and love is in the air. Love is something we should hold in reverence, because let's face it, no one understands it and no one ever will. Not Dr. Ruth, Leo Buscaglia, or D.H. Lawrence, and certainly not you and I. But there are some things most of us accept about love, and I'd like to share them with you. First of all, love is not just some- thing that guys made up to get girls into bed. In the movies, guys are al- ways saying 'I love you' to the girl they want to have sex with. But there is more than that. Some people place a lot of emphasis on sex in a relation- ship, some place little. There is noth- ing wrong with either viewpoint. Only those who see love as nothing but sex are mistaken. Love means much more than sex. It means sweaty palms, a lack of appe- tite, and not being able to concentrate on anything. I go through this seven days a week, but I think it's just a honnone problem in my case. For most, these are signs of love. Love causes stress in even the most perfect relationship, and stress causes the aforementioned results. Stress also causes zits, so next time you get a zit just tell people you are in love. I always thought of love as everything-the goal to shoot for, the ultimate thing in life. If you doubt this, or are too logical to accept it, think on this: love provides you with the high- est high, when you know that you are in love and the other feels the same way, Yet it also provides you with the lowest lows: loving someone who doesn't know you are alive lor worse yet knows and wishes it weren't sol, and right after breaking up with the one you love. This is not always a passing thing. I have known people of both sexes who have held onto a lost love for months and years. I still love someone whom I haven't seen in about eighteen months and never will again. So even after a relation- ship is over, the love lives on. It just happens that sometimes nothing comes of it. It may be hard to recognize that you are in love until it is too late and the opportunity to do something about it is gone. And this creates another problem. Some people try and push themselves into loving someone whom they really wouldn't ordinarily. This may have been what happened in my relationship-I was extremely eager to find love and may have led myselfinto believing Iwas in love. A lot of people, including myself, love more than one person. I would think that most of you love at least one of your friends, whether or not you have a boyfriend! girlfriend. Love is not something that you can share only with members of the opposite sex. It is true that most of us find it easier to love friends of the opposite sex, but it is not limited to that. And that is where some people run into trouble. They panic the minute they hear the word love in a relationship, when sometimes it means that the person really cares for them. Turning eighteen brings no change in life My 18th birthday was last month. In our culture, 18 is the time where we come of age. It's a promise of carte blanche after years of rules and guidelines as a minor. We're handed the gold key to the 'crap- per, so to speak. The world is our oyster. We can do anything we want, right? PSYCH! When I woke up on the morning of my birthday, I thought of all the things I could do that day that I couldn't do the day before. It was a pretty short list. For starters, one thing we can do is vote. I don't mean to downplay voting at all.It is a great American in- stitution and something we should all be proud of, but in reality it's not something that sends you dancing in the streets. Besides, I missed the elections by a week. You can legally buy cigarettes: I don't smoke. You can legally rent porno movies and buy porno magazines: I'm not a pervert. You can get married without pa- rental consent: I'm not crazy. Here are some other things you get to do: You get to register for the draft. If the time comes, it is quite possible that you might end up dead in some foreign jungle or desert in a remote corner of the world that you can't even pronounce. If you commit a crime, everyone will know about it. You'll no longer have the protection against having your name printed in the paper that you enjoyed in your youth. Ifyou are convicted, you might as well forget about the easy life of a boys home. Its the big house for you,son. Don't worry. They love 18 year old boys up inWa1la Walla. Your dance card will be full. Kind of depressing, isn't it? I should have stayed in bed. lfyou're l5, 16, or 17 and youjust can't wait for the good times that await you in the years to come, take my advice: be patient. Enjoy your youth: revel in your time. It's a cold cruel world out there. Auntie Em, there's no place like home! -Kirk Petersen Bay Window

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