I am someone who easily gets crushes.
The first boy I remember liking was a kid in the first grade named Jamal. He just stood out to me because he looked different from everyone else, he wore his hair in a long hair in a ponytail when all the other boys had short hair. He also wore a red jacket, and red was my favorite color. He was a quiet kid. I just followed him around every recess watching him from afar on the juggle gym or by the trees, and the poor guy was pretty confused as to why I kept wandering everywhere and staring.
My family moved away to another state, but I remember in the 5th grade getting a crush on a boy named Mario, was the smartest in the class, he was good at sports. He was popular, he was driven. He was a star in my 9-year-old eyes. He actually didn't treat me that nicely, he was kinda arrogant unlike my first crush.
Over the years I matured and I started to prefer men who also seemed mature, calm and sophisticated get my attention.
Freshman year I had a crush on a young creative writing teacher who was really nurturing of each and every one of his students. He would spend a lot of one on one time with each of us, recommend other books off the curriculum that we might like, and just sit and talk with us over lunch about movies and whatever. He was informal and cool. Though I was infatuated with him, and other students also thought he was hot, there was nothing inappropriate about relationship with us. We were his teenage students, and he was a good man who would not take advantage of his position like that. He was also a happily married man with kids of his own. When he was praising my poetry he probably had no idea that he was the muse that inspired me to pour my heart and soul into those pages.
I had a crush on a boy next door also once, he was gentle and looked like an angel. There was something beautiful about him outside and inside. It got even better when we met up and started working together volunteering to help out at the office for a local candidate's campaign race. We were just friends and neighbors though, it was never a relationship.
I also had crush on a cute, young doctor who was doing a clinical internship at a major hospital in my community, and ended up treating me a few times fresh out of medical school. I was crestfallen when he suddenly was not there as my doctor, in his place was a little old lady who could have been my grandmother. But I am happy to hear that he went to a different location to set up a successful practice of his own. I wish him luck in the path he went down, and hope he is safe right now. He seemed like a nice guy.
These are stories from several years ago. I don't have any crushes now because I am I have been a steady relationship for the past 2 years. The man I have is plenty :)
