Here's an observation, some people are appalled (or maybe just a bit concerned?) to hear of grade school kids dating and say that they're just too young for these kinds of things. Well, at least that's true for us here in the Philippines.
Where are people coming from when they say this? Is it because this is what we heard our parents say when we were young? Is it because we know and feel that these kids can busy themselves with more important things than impressing the opposite sex at their age?
Wherever it is, I'd like to throw that question back to the older ones, what makes us more qualified to date around at our age? Wisdom? Maturity? (I know of high school kids having a more mature mindset than 20-year olds.) If the older ones are for these kinds of stuff, why are a lot of people at the 'right age' so wrecked and confused while dating around?
The thing is, it's not about age. Partly, it's maturity in character. But an important thing we might want to look at is, what really is the purpose of dating?
"The essence of the problem is that dating has become detached from the process of looking for a marriage partner, that is, from courtship, and has become a form of recreation." -K. Wilson
How about you, what's your take on dating?
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