I leave on August 14th for college at East Carolina University, leaving my SO Garrett here in high school. He'll be a junior. People have been asking me if we plan on staying together through when I leave. My answer? ...Duh. I love him in a way I haven't loved anyone else. He doesn't take away from anything about me. If anything, he builds me up and makes me feel like more of my own person than ever. He supports me in every way, even to the point where I got up the confidence to audition for ECU's music school, the best around where I live. I got in, and I'm going, obviously. The school is a little over two and a half hours away and I'll have a car. We're both absolute band geeks and percussionists so we have a very uncommon bond. We've been friends for about two years and have always been close. We tell each other everything and love it that way. I'm the happiest and most optimistic I've ever been.
But it seems like everywhere I look I see something about how "high school relationships can't last." Is the world really that pessimistic? Or am I just crazy? I plan to be a high school band director. He wants to be an engineer. He's the most mature and level-headed person in high school I've met over four years. He really does improve my life. I know that there are exceptions to every rule, but I've been told it's stupid to think we're the one couple in however many that will "make it." I know people grow and change but, if anything, we've grown TOGETHER in a huge way in the past year. In my book, it's all systems go. His too. He's totally devoted to me and I to him. There isn't a cheating bone in either of our bodies.
I guess what I need to find out is if anyone out there actually doesn't doubt that we can last. The thought of us breaking up makes me sick to my stomach. I would never just break up with him because I'm leaving. That's why I joined this site.
But it seems like everywhere I look I see something about how "high school relationships can't last." Is the world really that pessimistic? Or am I just crazy? I plan to be a high school band director. He wants to be an engineer. He's the most mature and level-headed person in high school I've met over four years. He really does improve my life. I know that there are exceptions to every rule, but I've been told it's stupid to think we're the one couple in however many that will "make it." I know people grow and change but, if anything, we've grown TOGETHER in a huge way in the past year. In my book, it's all systems go. His too. He's totally devoted to me and I to him. There isn't a cheating bone in either of our bodies.
I guess what I need to find out is if anyone out there actually doesn't doubt that we can last. The thought of us breaking up makes me sick to my stomach. I would never just break up with him because I'm leaving. That's why I joined this site.
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