Do you still remember your first teenage heartbreak? Sucks, eh. The first time you’ve ever broken your tender heart? When I was growing up as a teenager, I loved love. Get it? I loved singing about it, writing about it, sketching about it, doodling about it —you name it; but, at such a young age, I never knew anything about it. Ironic, isn’t it?

The first person who I thought I loved was my first teenage boyfriend, Christopher Santoro, actually let’s just name him Herbert. Yeah, Herbert (haha). Having such strong emotions for someone gives you the rush; but 80% of the time, high school relationships usually end up as pure infatuation. This chapter of my life ended as quickly as it started — he broke up with my poor heart (OVER the phone) because he lived faraway (30 minutes away,lol). I was sixteen at the time. 

Then, a couple of years later I had another boyfriend; this time, he’s Caucasian.We will name him CheapJeepDude. I took him to a Filipino party. Turns out, he couldn’t handle the sight of the fishhead on my auntie’s table. He gently excused himself and told me he was sick. But, surprisingly, he went to a bar with a bunch of girls instead and never called me again. He broke up with me without telling me by removing all the ‘relationship’ status on social networking sites (MySpace and Xanga was the shit.) Lol. I was eighteen at the time and he was twenty one. You see, this proves that girls do mature faster than the guys.

I guess I will stop my story there because after these break up fiasco, the tables had turned. So, I won’t tell you that part. Or maybe I will. We’ll see. :)

I am almost 23 years old. I’m sitting here, reminiscing these memories that used to be “painful” for me.. These memories only happened a few years ago but now, I just smile at my stupidity and laugh at the past situations. How can I be so pathetic then?

The lesson here is, you really learn from your past mistakes. And each boyfriend you’ll get will be one step better than the other (unless, you choose the douche kind).

Cheers. Choosely wisely. Love moderately.