Tag: Love
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We’re Just Friends!
If you’re creative enough, those same gifts that are originally made for a significant other can easily be turned into gifts for your friends. However, here are some gift ideas you can also make or buy for your FRIENDS (this one’s for all you single people out there).
- Sweets- There’s more to this holiday than just chocolate, treating your friends with a gift basket filled with all of your friend’s favorite snacks.
- Plushie- Teddy Bears are also not the only hype of the day, a small plushie could always make an old pal of yours feel nice.
- Inside Joke Gift- Make your buddy laugh by bringing up a memory only the two of you share by turning it into a gift.
- Appreciation Letter- The name is self-explanatory, but of course some appreciation does not hurt in relationships, even friendships.
- DIY- Take this opportunity to be creative and come up with anything you think your friend might enjoy (such as a coupon book, or a “10 reasons why I love you”) keep it platonic!
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Sweetheart Gifts
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, several couples are beginning to prepare their gifts for their significant others as a form of appreciation
- Chocolate- make your partner’s day the sweetest on this day of love. Be it a heart-shaped box of chocolates or their favorite chocolate, get them a little treat!
- Flowers- by getting their favorite flowers, that might be enough to make your partner’s day the absolute best, with their inner beauty blooming through.
- Teddy bear- it doesn’t have to be a big one, but just the right size for your partner to embrace while you are not there with them.
- Love letter- whether you do this on a daily basis or not, a bit of appreciation for your partner would be nice
- Anything Handmade- If you can’t afford anything this year, you don’t really have to buy anything, and can always make something instead. After all, it’s the thought that counts in the end.
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Missing the Class of 2019
If it hasn’t been said already, then I’ll be the first to say it: this school year is extremely different compared to last year. However, one thing that has especially impacted me has been the absence of alumni. It is uncertain how I got so close to them, but I know for a fact that it is definitely not the same without them.
During the previous school year, you would find me hanging out with a group full of seniors. Like I said, I don’t really know how I winded up there in the first place, but being around them sure gave me pleasure. Conversations with them made me feel welcomed, and being a part of them made me feel included.
Aside from that friend group, I also gained some friends from a college readiness program located at Long Beach City College called Upward Bound. I did not expect all my friends there to be ready so soon. Now that they’re in college and the majority of them no longer attend the program the same way, it feels different.
Not only that, but last school year the newspaper production class was full of seniors. It was a class full of leadership as well as love and passion. Without this love and passion they held, the school newspaper could not have been the same. The laughter and inside jokes shared among the class brought a whole new meaning to journalism for me.
Overall, these people left such a huge impact on me. Meeting them is possibly one of the greatest things that has ever happened to me. In all honesty, seniors should be appreciated more and not taken for granted while they’re around.
Although I no longer see them or hang out with them in the same way anymore, the experience was fun while it lasted. The connections are still there and the friendships still exist. I hope they’re all doing well and that they’re surrounded by people as amazing as they all are. In the end, people come and go in life, but it’s what they leave behind that matters.
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Valentines Day Horoscopes!
Aries: Goes for someone way out of their league
Taurus: Is still dating their middle school crush
Gemini: Falls i
n love with a new person every week
Cancer: Makes you meet their mom before the first date
Leo: Breaks up with you due to contrasting beliefs
Virgo: Is perpetually stuck in the friend-zone
Libra: Asks you out through a DM
Scorpio: Constantly asking if you still like them
Sagittarius: Claims they’re “just not ready”
Capricorn: Plans an elaborate surprise to ask you out
Aquarius: Avoids you until you awkwardly drift
Comic sketched by Ella Christensen Pisces: Plays hard to get-ends up alone
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Boys Need Love Too
Lately I’ve noticed a wonderful thing happening: women demolishing the stigma of body imperfections. All around me in school, at work, and in the media, I see women who have struggled with the embarrassment of not having a “perfect body” learning to love themselves and each other. One of the ways they do this is by dismissing the crude verbal abuse of misogynistic men. And it’s nice because I see a lot of disrespect from men and it makes me wonder, Why the hell are boys like this? Then, after close observation, it occurred to me: they do this to cope with their own poor self-image.
It’s easy to put a girl down by pointing out her weight, body hair, bra size, how her makeup looks, etc.; and it is just as easy to put down a boy (especially a teenage boy) by pointing out how short he is, how fat he is, how weak his muscles look, or the modest size of his reproductive organ. Every guy can relate to at least one of these issues, you just won’t hear most of them talking about it because they’re afraid of expressing emotion. One thing you need to understand is that masculinity is a very fragile thing. Young men face so much ridicule when they show emotion, and it comes mostly from other guys.
That’s the difference between males and females. The reason many girls are becoming less concerned with their looks is because they support each other. Males, however, ridicule one another for showing that kind of concern, or any kind of emotion. I know because I have been a victim of this ridicule my entire life. A sensitive child, I was incessantly abused by my peers and scorned by the older men in my life. They were always frustrated by their inability to pose as strong role-models. Apparently I’m not masculine because I show emotions and I don’t mock females.
I’m fine with that. If being a man means you aren’t allowed to have emotions or show respect, who the hell wants to be a man?
