Love-heartaches fascinate me...

[Peter_20]

Yeah, I think we've all experienced this horrible situation before: you have feelings for someone, and that someone might even be someone you don't know that well (you might just like the person's looks and his/her way of acting), and then you find out about his/her not returning your feelings, and your whole life becomes hell.
This is, IMO, pretty interesting - I mean, consider the scenario: your life is basically "indirectly controlled" by this single person, and the person's mere existence might make you stop eating, stop doing your homework, stop spending time with your friends, stop everything.
All of this just because of some person you have a sad crush on.
It's like a disease, a very serious disease.

I've luckily only had one serious heartache before, and that was for this girl whom I had known for 12 years: I'd had feelings for her all the time, and obviously they were mutual back then, but I was too shy all the time; and then I asked her out, but she was already "taken".
This was a terrible shock for me, and my life was pure hell for some time - I usually recover pretty fast, though, so I only felt crap for about one week.
Still I definitely don't wish to experience it again.

During high school I found out about this girl that felt very strong feelings for me, and she seemed affected in all sorts of ways: her whole life was "twisted", you could say, and she always seemed a bit sad.
Still sadder she became when I told her about my not returning her feelings, and then it was really obvious that she'd start crying at any moment.
We didn't know each other really well either, we were just classmates and tended to talk to each other every now and then, and still her life seemed hell - because of my existence, one could say.

I find this extremely fascinating, it's both cruel and cool all at once.
It's amazing how greatly you can affect someone's life just by... existing!