6 Things You'll Hate Yourself for Doing

By Uloop Archives on June 26, 2013

1. Creeping on an ex-friend’s Instagram.

Whenever I look at a person’s Instagram that I’m not supposed to be interested in, there’s a little flower inside of me that dies because once again, I caved in. I’ve allowed myself to care about another person’s life I’m no longer apart of. Maybe it’s a longing for us to still be friends, even if our relationship wasn’t healthy at all. Or maybe it’s me longing for their highlight reel in replace of my behind the scenes.

 

2. Finally having the courage to tell your first crush you liked him for seven years . . . After you’ve both graduated and moved on. 

 

I’m not even going to pretend I didn’t know what I was doing at the time. I sure as hell know why I messaged the guy I liked in the sixth grade. Not because there was a small hope inside of me something romantic may happen now, but because it was a way for me to sort of let go of my adolescent years. It gave me closure. I wanted this guy to know that during the semester we were table partners in art class and the two semesters we were locker buddies, I felt something. Call it puppy love, I don’t know. I do appreciate him responding. It might have been an emotionally-detached answer I wasn’t expecting and one of the awkwardest encounters behind a computer screen I’ve ever had, but I do have to say it feels good to know I finally put myself out there . . . Seven years too late.

 

3. Texting first.

I swear I’m going to stop texting people first because I hate being the person who initiates the conversation the most. But I can’t help it. I’m a sociable person. I get lonely real fast. Consider my self-promise broken, because here I go again.

 

4. Caring about followers.

For some reason, I have the tendency to care about who follows me back or not. No, I’m not #TeamFollowBack, but I’m not a huge fan of refusing to follow back someone you know fairly well either. I look at it as a common courtesy. I follow you, you follow me. Yah feel me?

Keeping track of who follows me is a nasty habit I try to break. Just like how de-friending a person on Facebook symbolizes the absolute end of a relationship, not following a person back that you know personally, or had some kind of relationship with (no matter how tasteful or how bland), is a slap in the face. Sure, there’s more to life than social media. Then again, our generation stands firmly behind it. We depend on it so much, it’s become an extension of our real lives. When someone we thought we were cool with in person unfollows us, it may cause us to question our selves and what we did to be unfollowed.

 

5. Pretending to like something just to fit in.

I pretended to be obsessed with Twilight WAY longer than I should have been. Given, it was a spectacular read when I was twelve. When the second and third films aired, my interest dwindled and I forced myself to go to the midnight showings just to say I saw it before my classmates.

 

6. Reaching the name-change limit on Facebook.

To this day, I’m still paying for this. My senior year, I was bored one day and thought how cool it would be to change my name . . . you know, to spice things up a bit. Little did I know, Facebook keeps track of those kind of things, and before I knew it, I could no longer change my name. Other than my official first and last name, my options are: Ash KetchumLakeisacantnobodydewitlikemelee, and Ashley Sugar-Loving Lee.

 

I thought I was funny.

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