Most people take crushes lightly. You have a crush on someone today but once you realize it isn’t going anywhere, you move on. But everyone remembers and has interesting stories about their first crush. Here, we hear ‘first crush’ stories from a few people. Unsurprisingly, for most of them, it happened during their school years.
Deeksha Thapa, Student
First crush? I have a crush on at least five people in a day and suddenly get over them the next day. I get all these butterflies in my stomach and then the next day I don’t even want to look at the same guy. I would say my preferences change according to my mood but I do want to admit that I have had the biggest crush on someone for almost two years now. It’s not like I have not given him any hints but I guess not everyone is lucky enough to turn their crush into a meaningful relationship.
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Sujit Ghimire, Student
She made my heart beat faster when I first saw her, my first crush. She was waiting for her bus. And something just clicked. Tune in a week later and we get to talking this time. She was sitting right next to me. I was all red. I had heard her voice when she was talking with her friends. I remember thinking, wow, it’s sweet. I too wanted to talk to her, ask her questions about her life, tell her about mine. Of course, that didn’t happen. But I still think of her face time to time.
Bijaya Tripathi, Social Worker
I consider myself an embarrassment where love is concerned. When I was 13, a guy and I shared the same tutor. I would throw my pen near him to start a conversation but he never picked it up. I would flick my hair, put makeup on just for him but oh, well. I even became friends with his cousin sister. Then a friend wanted to see this guy I talked about “excessively”. I got someone to bring the school magazine and showed them his picture. Of course, that friend knew his sister. Everyone in the tuition class found out. It ended up becoming really awkward.
Anima Piya, Civil engineer
I had my first crush when I was in seventh grade. It was this senior from school who was a little rebellious—he broke school rules frequently and spiked up his hair even though we weren’t allowed to style our hair at all. A friend and I found him really cool and crushed on him but a while later it died a natural death because he started dating this other senior I was pretty close to. I think he later found out that I had a “small” crush on him but it never got to a point where either of us were awkward about it and so now we have a kind of brother-sister relationship.
Ashish Poudel, Musician
I only remember my first crush very vaguely—so some details that I’m sharing here might be a little different than what actually happened. I was in seventh grade and was crushing on this girl in eighth grade—I hadn’t spoken to her at all and I doubt that she had even noticed me until both of us participated in this inter school art competition. We started talking to each other then became really good friends and later got assigned to the same (school) bus where she sat right in front of my seat. Nothing came out of it though because I changed schools next year and we lost contact.
Shradhha Khatiwada, Student
I have always been the kind of person who just has to go to school on time. So on the first day of eighth grade, I reached school an hour earlier than I was supposed to and that was when a guy entered our class. He asked me if I knew where class 10 was and that was when I realized that he was my first crush—at first sight. There would be times when I came to school just so I could see him. I would always have the biggest smile on my face whenever I saw him. Till this day, I cannot explain how giddy I used to feel.
