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Fin: Love is Something Everyone Will Go Through
Fin Macdonald, the instructor of our periodical reading course shared his pain-sweet first love story with us and provided valuable advice for youngsters.
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the girl to dance at the ball did not lead their relationship to anywhere further. Eventually, this relationship ended up fruitless.
Being nurtured by the first love
After the painful but beautiful reminiscence of his first love, Fin, as an“ experienced hand” of the first love, gave us his precious advice for the young people to refer to.
Seasoned and sophisticated as he looks, Fin also had a heart-broken experience of fruitless first love when he was a teenager. Last week, Fin Macdonald, invited as the honored guest of our special column“ The Arrow of Cupid”, shared with us his experience of being hit by Cupid’ s arrow.
The first arrow of Cupid
The heroine of Fin’ s first love story is one of his classmates in his middle school, a girl with long black hair and black eyes.“ Whenever she passes by and sometimes unintentionally pokes her elbow into my arms, I can feel my heart pounding violently.” Fin said, with a reminiscent smile. At that time, however, Fin was too shy even to speak to her. His boldest move— inviting
“ Time heals wounds”, as Fin repeated. He said that although the experience did take a toll on him during that period, after years, the wounds healed up automatically and now he can recollect the memory at ease. Fin regarded the first love experience as“ childish love” and said that people’ s minds would undergo changes when they are getting mature. He also encouraged the youngsters to be brave when facing failures in pursuing love.“ Do not be afraid of such experience. It’ s natural”, Fin said,“ Love is something everyone will go through.”
When asked about his ideal girlfriend now, Fin said he is likely to have a crash on the kind of girl who is kind to children and animals, and has a passion for something interesting, like music or art.“ So that we can have interesting conversations.” Said Fin.
( Edited by Elaine)