Does He Still Like You,

Thanks for the trouble you went to with your explanation, Unknown. That obviously took quite a bit of time and effort. Here's my thoughts, and I'm always honest. I understand this all seems huge at the moment, but you and your friend are going to change as you grow up. And I'm thinking you're likely to make new friends in middle school and beyond. Does he still like you, Yes, he probably does. But liking someone (even liking someone a lot) is hardly reason to get too stressed. Believe me, 'love' is yet to come. Liking a boy for 3 years is liking a boy for 3 years. Don't be in too much of a hurry to get caught up in the whole boyfriend/girlfriend turmoil. Kids put pressure on each other to date and say they're 'in love' because it all seems so grown-up. But, fact is, kids your age are not grown-up yet. So I think you should resist the peer pressure. Love will hit you like a sledge-hammer when you're older, and there will be no mistaking it.

Follow these simple steps, and pretty soon, you will be able to fashion up the leanest and meanest paper planes around. This is not some extraordinary skill to write home about, but it is worth the minimal efforts that are required of you. The joy of seeing your craft in perfect flight, is something that only a few selected people can really comprehend. Finding the right kind of paper is absolutely imperative. You will need a rectangular sheet of paper of normal thickness. The best sheet that you can use is the one used for computer printouts. Fold the paper in half, lengthwise. Place one of the longer edges over the other edge, and make a deep crease with your thumb.

The plane needs to be perfectly symmetrical, making the crease very important. Fold one of the corners diagonally downwards so that the edge of the fold falls exactly over your original halfway crease. Once this step is done, you will have a triangular flap that falls directly over the center crease. Repeat this for the other side of the sheet, in order to maintain the symmetry. Now, you need to fold the triangular flap downwards, while ensuring that the lowest line corresponds with the original midway crease that you've made. Turn the sheet over, and make the same fold on the other side as well. Do not forget to press in the creases firmly.

It is less about dexterity of the fingers, and more about firmness of the folds and creases. Again fold the sides down so that there is a crease exactly halfway through the flaps. These form the wings of your paper airplane, and it is now ready to fly. Hold the plane in the right manner, and launch it in a horizontal and upward swift motion. If the plane does not fly well, try making another one. Many people think that they can make an airplane fly in a reverse trajectory, one that makes it come back to you. This is not possible, as neither does the paper airplane have an engine, nor is it a boomerang. It is just not possible to make it fly back to you, unless it is aided by the wind. Hopefully, the aforementioned steps will work for creating simple paper planes.

“Professionals who accomplish amazing goals like starting companies often admit that they have a hard time making friends,” says Shasta Nelson, author of Friendships Don’t Just Happen. And the older you get, the fewer friends you probably have. While social circles increase through early adulthood, friendship networks peak and start to decrease as you move through your twenties, according to a 2013 study published in the Psychological Bulletin. Researchers found that the drop in friendships was often due to marriage, parenthood, and a desire to focus on closer relationships. Unfortunately close relationships aren’t guaranteed to last; a study by sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst of Utrecht University in the Netherlands found that we lose half our close friends every seven years and replace them with new relationships. And it’s time we should find. According to researchers at Brigham Young University, having too few friends is the equivalent mortality risk to smoking 15 cigarettes a day and is riskier than obesity.