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Crazy love
It's amazing the stuff you'll obsess over when it comes to matter of the heart.
Contrary to popular belief, us boys do go mental over love just as much as girls, but we’re probably more likely to let it burn a hole inside us rather than divulge to another person.
They really are amazing things, crushes. They’ll make a normally logical person become wildly irrational, the most hardened cynic turn to goo at the mention of a name, they generally make you go a bit haywire. The most simple tasks turn into, like, the biggest thing ever, especially texting or any other type of messaging. Yup, even the humble text gets scrutinised to within an inch of its life. A simple “how are you?” type message can be written, rewritten, smiley faces replaced by an ‘x’ and vice-versa and generally scanned over for anything that sounds stupid, unfunny or basically doesn't make you look 100% cool, 100% percent of the time. Shakespeare wouldn’t have put as much effort in writing Romeo and Juliet. And if you get sent a message, profile comment or any such acknowledgement, prepare to feel like Sally Field at the Oscars.
If you’re actually talking to your crush face to face, forget it! Maybe it’s because your heart is beating so loudly you can’t hear what you’re saying, but it’s next to impossible to not turn into a complete idiot when talking to the object of one’s affection. Being self conscious about it only makes it worse. Everything you say is automatically followed by an afterthought along the lines of “What the hell did I say that for?” or “Is that even a word?” and in the worst-case scenario, “Why is she walking away already?”.
While your crush might not even have noticed you acting all that strangely or not have cottoned on to the fact that your head might explode at any minute, you cannot afford to take that risk. Chances are the conversation went so badly you said “Cheerio”, or something else you’d never ever say in real life, to finish it, not to mention agonising over every other sentence before it, so you’re just dying to scramble back a bit of piece of mind. In other words, you want to finish on a note you’re relatively comfortable with or at least one that doesn’t make you feel like a complete tool. And now we’re back to messaging- three hours and about a hundred words later, you feel at ease again. Until the next time you see them, that is.
You aren’t the only one to suffer though, your closest friends have to put up with your manic behaviour. For example, a good friend of mine commented that during one period of infatuation I “acted like a man on crack”, and he wasn’t too far wrong, one minute I was jumping around like Conan O’Brien, the next I was obsessing and talking so much gibberish I made Rainman look like Cary Grant. I apologise for what I put him through to this day.
I have a bit of a crush on somebody at the minute. Needless to say, it’s driving me up the wall. And while it’s not at the point where friends and relatives want to tranquillise me just yet, it’s only a matter of time. You’d think it would get easier over time, wouldn’t you?
By: Paddy Duffy
