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"So on my last blog, a bunch of you commented asking for advice on getting over a CRUSH! Ask and ye shall receive... Crushes are T-R-I-C-K-Y because there&amp;#039;s always the &amp;quot;what could have been&amp;quot; factor. You weren&amp;#039;t actually in a relationship with this dude, so you didn&amp;#039;t really get to experience the annoying things about him. Like how he checks out other girls in front of you or how he thinks it&amp;#039;s funny to let out a fart amidst a macking-session. BECAUSE you don&amp;#039;t have those experiences with him, you start to think that those faults don&amp;#039;t exist. &amp;quot;He was the perfect guy. He could&amp;#039;ve been Mr. Right.&amp;quot; You idealize him. You make him perfect. Guess what? He WASN&amp;#039;T PERFECT. And if it didn&amp;#039;t work out, he obviously wasn&amp;#039;t Mr. Right. He was just your &amp;quot;Mr. Right Now.&amp;quot; A lot of times when single guys don&amp;#039;t show interest, it&amp;#039;s because THEY are crushing on someone. They&amp;#039;ve invested all their time in this one person that they don&amp;#039;t realize all the other awesome girls who are looking their way. News flash: Same goes for you! Chances are you&amp;#039;re getting so caught up in your crush, you don&amp;#039;t notice the subtle flirtations of that sweet and gorgeous guy you share your locker with! For some mysterious reason, somebody wrote in the &amp;quot;How to be a girl&amp;quot; manual, that you ALWAYS have to have a crush. Well get out a Sharpie and scratch that out! It&amp;#039;s almost become part of girl culture to have crushes; we talk about them, write about them, and obsess over them. So a lot of times, girls will jump from one crush to the next. But it&amp;#039;s okay if you&amp;#039;re not always drooling over someone. In fact, it&amp;#039;s probably better. Instead of investing in somebody else, invest in YOU. Guys will be attracted to your sense of self-worth. Time for a run-down: 1. Let him go: He wasn&amp;#039;t as perfect as you think he was and chances are, it wouldn&amp;#039;t have worked out. 2. Open your eyes: There are guys everywhere, it doesn&amp;#039;t make sense to be hyper-focused on just one. 3. Focus on YOURSELF! You&amp;#039;re not going to be happy in a serious relationship if you can&amp;#039;t be happy solo. Happy getting over it, Carina Kolodny "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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