“Yo, you gotta tell her son, just say it!”

Best friends tend to say a lot; sometimes they can say the right thing, the wrong thing, they’ll even tell you the truth when it’s the last thing you want to hear.  Nonetheless, they can play a huge role in your relationship, if you let them.  In this case, I should have definitely listened to them chumps (my bffs)!!

So this had to be like, sophomore year of college, I met this lovely young lady, who shall remain nameless because I’m sure she’s reading (Yo0o0pe!). Well we began talking, and I started feeling her, but since I was a stone cold sissy, I just couldn’t muster up the courage to actually say anything to her.  With me liking her, it really brought out the shyness in me, smh.  Well anyways, my best friends would always say, “Yo Matt, you gotta tell her son, just say it…” I knew they were right but I didn’t want to push the girl away.  The chance of her not feeling the same way was too frightening for me to go through with it. So I figured just being friends was the safest thing for me to do, avoiding any kind of humility, and just keep crushing on her hard (so lame lol).

Fast-forward a semester, spring break and maybe a summer. Now the girl and I are basically at the same stage, teetering between the infamous “friend zone” and a “School Daze romance.”  So after about a year and some change of knowing each other, things seemed to be at a standstill.  She eventually got back with her old boyfriend and I was left with the treacherous feeling of regret, smh, and the worst feeling ever.  She and I stayed friends, and come to find out, all the feelings I once had for her, she felt the same way about me. 

Had I listened to my friends from jump and just told her how I felt, there’s no telling how things may have played out.  I guess it was a learning experience, I just wish these experiences would come with a mulligan, gosh.