By Ella Kate McCord
Valentine’s Day can be a very controversial holiday because you either love it or you hate it. Some like it because of the chocolates and candy, their significant other taking them on a date, or simply because you can have a Galentine’s day with your friends.
In the Lovett survey we sent out to the Lovett community, the majority of the people who hate Valentine’s Day hate it because they feel lonely and they do not like seeing people together on this day.
While thinking about this holiday coming up, crushes came to mind because everyone has a crush at some point. Whether it was your first crush when you were little, your senior crush, or just someone that you like for their looks or personality, you probably know the feeling of your brain getting hijacked while thinking about them.
According to the survey, over half of Lovett students regularly have a crush based on someone’s appearance while the rest base it on personality. Many have multiple crushes at the same time because they find multiple people to be attractive or because they bond really well with them. Obviously, we can like different people for different reasons.
Next, there is a celebrity crush. This one can start from when you are very young. I know that I definitely had a crush on Justin Beiber when I was younger. This can come from any of your TV shows that you watch, movies, artists, or anyone else that is famous.
Crushing for people is just a fun thing to do and a distraction for most people to get their minds off of other things, like school. But there were still a variety of perspectives, from constantly having a crush on daydreaming about them, or not crushing at all because you are focused on other things. Fortunately for some of those who do crush, it does not interfere with their day-to-day activities.
Mostly when thinking about a crush, you dream of them becoming something more than just friends in the future, but when it really comes down to it most people just think of it as a dream that won’t come true. Surprisingly, this was proven wrong when I saw that the majority of the Lovett community have had a crush and it turned it into a relationship which proves that sometimes it can be more than just a dream. The Lovett community has been very bold lately in the fact that more than a third of the community has asked their crush out.
There are so many different kinds of crushing which proves to me that the majority of people are always crushing on at least one person, even if all there is to it is seeing them in the halls or in one of your classes, and wondering if just maybe, you’ll be on a date with them next Valentine’s Day.
