We’ve all heard the term “the canon event.” But what is that exactly?
A common canon event is breaking up with your high school sweetheart, with the grand hopes of having “fun” in college. I’m here to tell you that the grass is not always greener on the other side.
I started dating my high school sweetheart in my freshman year of high school, and almost five years later, we are still going strong.
With Valentine’s Day coming up, I feel now is a better time than most to share my advice with couples adjusting to college: if you love your partner as much as I love mine, it is worth the effort.
If you don’t believe you can make it work, long-distance or even at the same school, it’s going to be hard because the biggest hurdle is mental.
If you truly love someone, then you should give it your all and trust that your partner will do the same for you. Understand that the first year is going to be the hardest.
Next, you must communicate your feelings with your partner as frequently as possible.
Communication is key. Without it, couples start to drift apart, which can lead to the dissolution of former sweethearts.
My final piece of advice is to understand that you are still growing, not in the 7th-grade health class way, but in the sense that you are free to make your own decisions and begin to start building the life that feels right to you.
If you can grow with your partner, you’re able to form a strong connection and gain a better understanding of what your partner needs and when.
I’d like to talk about how much I appreciate my girlfriend and everything that she does for me, and how much she means to me.
Lucy, I don’t think I tell you enough how much you truly mean to me, so I’m going to try to put it into words the best I can.
In the nearly five years we have been together, you have always had a way of making the world feel lighter, my problems feel smaller and you have understood me. You have understood me in a way that I’m not even sure I understood myself before I met you.
You’re the first thing I think of when I wake up in the morning, and you’re the last thing I think of before I go to sleep.
I love how natural and easy it is for us to spend time together, so that I can truly be myself. I love that my favorite memories with you are the moments where nothing special is happening; just being with you makes the rest of the world cease to exist around us.
You give me a reason to get out of bed every day, to want more for myself, to change for the better; not because you asked me to, but because loving you makes me want to be the best version of myself.
There are a lot of decisions that go into my everyday life, but the easiest is choosing you. It’s easy to choose your smile and big, beautiful blue eyes.
Seeing you smile is all I ever want, and making you laugh is my greatest accomplishment.
Being with you feels like winning the lottery every time.
One day in the future, you will spend our last six dollars on a strawberry açaí refresher from Starbucks. If it makes you happy, it will all be worth it.
I love you, and happy Valentine’s Day.
