:bism: (In the Name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful)
Lol. Well, I don't know if our brother will take all this good advice on board, but let's hope. Being a teenager is tough; and I wouldn't wish to relive my own teenage years for anything, and I sympathize with the struggle. The opposite sex is a distraction at any age, but at the age of puberty more so than anything; I think the solution is to know that you might develop crushes on one girl or another but to know that this is indeed infatuation that will wear itself out and not true love. As my high school teacher once said, true love is when you can love the person when they're sleeping next to you dripping drool down their faces and still love them for themselves. Not an attractive image, I'll grant you. But a poignant one and something like what true love is for one who cares to know. Everything else is hormones.
Lol. Well, I don't know if our brother will take all this good advice on board, but let's hope. Being a teenager is tough; and I wouldn't wish to relive my own teenage years for anything, and I sympathize with the struggle. The opposite sex is a distraction at any age, but at the age of puberty more so than anything; I think the solution is to know that you might develop crushes on one girl or another but to know that this is indeed infatuation that will wear itself out and not true love. As my high school teacher once said, true love is when you can love the person when they're sleeping next to you dripping drool down their faces and still love them for themselves. Not an attractive image, I'll grant you. But a poignant one and something like what true love is for one who cares to know. Everything else is hormones.
In purely practical terms, does anyone here really believe our young friend is going to take advice? This isn't personal, it's just that I never met a teenage boy, including me, who could control his hormones.