Young, Dumb, Broke

Seems like I missed another blog post.  But for some reasoned it did seem to bother me which I guess its a sign that this is actually useful.  That's why this post is coming to you from the Learning Resources Center at my school.  So here is today's theory: No matter the length of sleep you get, you'll still be the same amount of tired when you wake up.  Essentially, this means that if you get 9 hours of sleep, you'll feel the same if you were to say get 7 hours of sleep.  Obviously the quality of sleep matters and the amount of exhaustion you feel before sleep plays a factor but I think that this is a valid hypothesis that should be explored further.  

But on a completely other note, I have decided to buy another silver pass for Disneyland.  It's kinda expensive but I think it might help in the long run.  Which you'll never find out my plan.... Just kidding.  I shall now reveal my plan.  So I started talking to this girl, let's say her name is Claire.  Now she is a year below me, which is not bad but she has really strict parents which basically limits her exposure to a social life, and social media. Her parents also don't let her have friends that are male, much less a boyfriend, but I think I could swing it if she was in.  But the thing that makes her great is that we're super compatible.  Like okay, that seems like an overstatement considering I haven't met her in person.  But I've video called her and we talked for hours, mostly relating about our love of Disney and psychotic mothers.  But like finding another girl who likes the same stuff as I do is difficult.  Anyways, I text her but she leaves me on read a lot, which is hella annoying, and she seems to not be as interested as I am in her.  Bummer. It seems like this happens a lot to me but I believe in the Ted Mosby Philosophy.  Relating back to How I Met Your Mother,  Ted dated tons of girls and spent most of his adult life trying to find the love of his life.  Through 9 seasons of not giving up and persevering even though the outcome was bleak, he finally found the love of his life.  His exact match.  A person that he could share his life with and a person that made him happy.  And from his years of trying and finally making it, the Ted Mosby philosophy was created: Trying your best and not giving up no matter what the world throws at you.  Now obviously, a ridiculously low percentage of high school relationships last and end up into marriage, and it's obvious that that would never happen between us but even for those 3 years or so before she leaves to go to university in Oxbridge and I'm left behind at HKUST, I want to spend those three years in a relationship with her.  Now you're probably thinking, what kind of 16 year old thinks like this and it seems very cheesy and all but I think it's good to remember the background of family I come from.  My parents divorced, my dad's entire family were divorced at least once.  I honestly think that took a toll on me.  So from this day forward, I'm going to make a promise to myself.  If I ever find someone that makes me happy as I could be and I marry her, I'll do everything in my power to stick with her through thick and thin and break the cycle in my family.  I promise to be the most loving and best husband I could be and if we have children, I promise to keep us all together as a family.  Now it seems like a long shot at me keeping this promise, but it will be something I'll hold dear to me for the rest of my life.  Keep my family together and don't let my relationships fail unnecessarily.  I can't talk to my family about my love life because it just isn't the kind of family we are.  Maybe my sister can get snippets of it but my parents are out of the equation.  Just coming from a broken family is difficult and the topic of love is a sore spot.  Also, from experience of my sister telling my parents about her boyfriend who lives in the ghetto and works as a cafeteria manager, it won't go well.  Maybe if Claire and I do get together, I'll let them know very subtly.  But back to my master plan if she does say yes,  I would either take her to Disneyland or to the new Mulan movie,  Now Disneyland is fun, but it's a whole say together and it's hot and sweaty.  Now that I think of it, perhaps that could be a second or third date.  So perhaps the new Mulan movie it is.  We both love Mulan and Disney right? So it seems like a perfect opportunity.  It's dark in the cinema, she's cold and needs a jacket.  Seems like an interesting first date.  Probably some dinner before or after it.  I reckon it would be a great night.