Sometimes I'm that friend who gets annoyed when my friends that have boyfriends. It’s a bad habit and I should probably ease up, but I can’t help it. I am a freshman in college and cannot relate as to why somebody has a relationship at this age. If you have a healthy, fun, long-lasting relationship with minimal problems then I salute you. Because that’s pretty rare.

At this age, we’re all pretty immature. We are jealous, manipulative and possessive. Due to this, I’ve witnessed many couples get in arguments about being friends with the opposite gender or bicker about partying. Not to mention, the "psycho girlfriend" trend is all over social media. Girls: we should probably wait to get over this unattractive phase before moving forward with anyone! Except everyone needs to stop pointing fingers at the girlfriends. I've seen some equally as 'psycho' boyfriends out there! We all are guilty here.

Here’s what I think: I’m at college to (g̶e̶t̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶e̶d̶u̶c̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶) have a good time and party whenever I want. I have no parents here and I’m definitely not signing up to have one by getting myself in a relationship. Having a significant other sometimes ends up in being babysat by someone you’re supposed to be having a good time with. Mixing the party scene and a relationship usually ends the night in some raised voices and tears. Basically, the opposite of the fun you were looking for.

Some people attempt the long-distance relationship that started in high school. I think we all know that high school relationships have a due date of about two years before things start getting shitty. Moving yourself across the country from your S.O. is hard and being without each other is even harder, I assume.

The restricting thing about trying a long-distance relationship is that you’re here in college to meet new people. Most people are away from anyone they went to high school with. Being in a new environment with people from all over the country allows you to meet a variety of new people. Having an open mind during this process makes it a lot easier to make connections with people. What if you have a long-distance boyfriend, but your future husband lives two rooms down from you?! Thanks to this relationship that may or may not work out, you could miss opportunities with someone who could be the right one for you.

Truly, my friends are more important to me than anything. It’s really hard for me to put something before them. Plus, I have serious FOMO when I’m not with them. So it would be difficult to involve myself seriously with a guy because that means I’m missing out on time with my friends. Nothing puts a damper on a friendship like a friend being with their boyfriend/girlfriend too much! We’ve all had our turn being “that friend” and it sucks to be on the outer-loop. Everyone has one free pass. After that, you gotta learn how to manage your time with your friends and your BF/GF better. Come on. Don’t be that person!

In our society, we’re stuck in a “hook-up culture.” As in everyone has a booty-call as opposed to a pure relationship that consists of paid-for dinners and surprise flowers in your dorm room while you’re at class. Our generation is constantly criticized for this. But why? I like it this way. Since everyone isn’t rushing to get into relationships, when one actually forms you know it’s genuine.

So for now, I’m gonna continue hanging out with my girls and flirting with random boys who don’t mean anything to me. And if anything gets serious, I’ll be surprised. Maybe later in college, I’ll have a different perspective, but this is how I feel for now. #SORRYNOTSORRY.