The Impossible Feeling

JOSEPH NEY-JUN
Staff Writer

Love is the language that everybody speaks. It is not confined to gender, religion, ethnicity or sexuality and every human being can express it but boys in general are not the best at speaking that language, least of all those in high school. What is this impossible feeling with no bounds (save the impenetrable walls of the male teenager’s skull), and what goes through the minds of teenage boys when they feel it?

One cannot generalize all of boy-kind at once, because every person is different. It mostly depends on our personality. Guys can be straightforward, cautious or too dense to get a hint. It usually starts with the shy smiles or common interest and then friendship (and then it stays there… FOREVER). Most guys just want to be there for the person we care for. Boys usually speak through their actions and not their words. While we can show it, can all that affection be confined to the three-word phrase, “I love you”?

Something as complicated as love cannot be defined by simple words. It cannot be generalized by statistics nor encompassed by an entire poem, song, or movie. It is a force that is felt better than understood. No one can agree on how to explain it, yet we feel it — all of us. Have I ever been in love with another person? I cannot say, or shall I say I cannot explain, but I definitely like someone a whole lot. I, and every other guy, feel love just the same as everyone else in the universe. Love is the language that everybody speaks but just give us a little longer to articulate and we can speak volumes!