I want to tell you all a quick story.
I wrote for twenty-year-olds who have never been loved four months ago before I left for college, when I was 18. I had never been in a relationship and had never felt that anyone cared for me romantically or wanted to spend a great part of their lives with me. I had never been with someone in a “more than friends” sense, and I honestly believed I would spend all four years of college in the same way.
That’s why I wrote that piece, because I was terrified of turning 20 and never having been in a relationship with anyone, and I believed that at 20, I still would not have been. So I wrote that piece to comfort both myself and everyone else who has felt similarly or dealt with similar things.
But now I am 19, and two months into a relationship with the kindest, most considerate, gentle guy I could possibly hope to meet in college, who cares about me, my family, my poetry, my work and stress and bad and good days. I have never been happier and never felt luckier.
So just because you believe you will never be loved or ever be in a relationship, even if you are 19 or 20 and still never have been, you will be. Don’t lose hope, because it is entirely possible.
It will happen. You just have to be patient.