Things To Do Before You're 30 Part 1 By Sarah Tomlinson

Part2, Part3, Part4, Part5

They say the first lines are always the hardest to write. I suppose they're not wrong. It took ages to think that up. I'm Sarah, 18 years old and born and bred in Hull, or as the locals call it 'ull. Hull is supposed to be the bog hole at the end of the M1. I disagree. Hull is a place where you can do almost anything you want, within the law of course. There's somewhere to go to get wrecked, somewhere to go to shop till you drop, loads of places to drive, loads of places to..mmmmm..eat! I really don't know what everyone complains about.

Well I'm from Hull and proud of it might I add. And this article is about the life I lead. But don't worry, its not as self involved as you think. So here goes..

Life ponders on as and when it wants, and sometimes leaves us behind. A shock to the system can't do us any good if we don't have time to embellish and resolve. I found this out the hard way. I had one of those shocks that you can see coming a mile away, but doesn't really want to happen until it happens and you're soooooo not ready for it. The way to deal, I believe, is to get out of yourself, to do something that really isn't you.

At the minute, the thing that really isn't me is men. So that's what I've been trying, but I seem to repel guys when I want them, even if just for a while. There is a guy. He was all mine when I didn't really want him. But now, I couldn't reach him if my arms were a 100 feet long. The worst thing is he's leaving for good very shortly, big bummer. Then what do I do?

Do we all see men as a challenge? If a guy doesn't like us like that after it never been proposed, will it become an everlasting painful friendship?

Example: Ok, one thing to clear up first, I work with this guy, that's where I met him, at work. So it's before Christmas we leave work and I propose a drink or two at The Admiral (local pub), he says yes and away we go. One drink turns in to two, two into four, and before you know it, it's last orders. Time flew for the two of us and my throat was soar from our 5-hour conversation. Can a guy and a girl just talk without having any kind of attraction, to get to know someone so well that you have a delayed reaction of smitten?

How do you know what a guy is thinking unless you..ask him, which I am way to shy to do at the minute. Maybe the day he leaves, then it doesn't matter, because if it goes pear shaped I'll never see him again. But is it just mean to do that to someone? To accidentally force them into an ultimatum? I'm so confused.

Things to do before your thirty? Get hung on a guy you can't have.

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