Hey, howzit going? I'm Mike Luis, I'm eighteen and currently I'm working full time at The Aloha Café in Jennersville and saving for school. It's kind of hard to explain my past because honestly, I've never dated…EVER. Don’t think I still believe girls have cooties or something like that. I just had my reasons. I remember back in the fourth grade was my first crush. It was a new girl who moved to my school and she only said one word to me and when she said, "move" it was heaven. But I never pursued anything mainly because I WAS IN THE FOURTH GRADE. All through middle school I never dated because I guess I was just scared and that I wasn’t much of a looker as I am today. All my friends were dating and sometimes I felt alone. High school came around; I grew up, well, kind of, became a young handsome man, and found God. During high school was when I made the decision that I'm not going to date because I'm going to make my relationship with Jesus Christ my main purpose, my main priority. I felt that if I were to date at my young age, that would just interfere with Jesus and me. So, I never dated. Opportunities to date came around left and right especially my junior and senior year, and even after graduating. But I just do what I've been doing. I tell them how it is, and that is my relationship with Christ is my only relationship I need right now. So far I still haven’t dated a single girl. It feels weird when you tell people that, especially your non-Christian friends. I get a lot of weird looks, shocking outbursts, and just plain, "oh, that's cool" expressions when I tell people I don’t date. It's a great way of evangelizing because a lot of my friends date and for me to tell them my reasons why I don’t, it just makes them think a lot. Now I'm not going to grow old by myself for the rest of my life. Someday I'm going to meet the right one for me. How am I going to know whose the right one for me you ask? Well, the only way I know how, and that's by trusting God. All those times I had to turn down the girls, who wanted to have a closer relationship with me, I turned them down because I knew God had somebody else in store for me, someone that will enjoy my unique personality, my random spontaneous adventures to Wal-Mart, and someone that loves God just as much. I can't tell you much about dating because I've never experienced it, but what I do know is if you are dating or if you want to, just make sure that it's God's decision. Live by His will and put Him before everything in your life, that includes your boyfriend or girlfriend. I think once you set your relationship with Christ above everything else between the two of you, you will have a sturdy relationship. The two of you would know what to do and what not to do physically. I hope that made sense. And if you make the decision that you don’t want to date, talking from experiences, it gets hard sometimes. Every time a girl comes up and says she has feelings for me, it gets harder to turn them down. It's like sometimes I just want to date, not caring who it is, just to say I've dated. Sometimes I feel alone. But when I start thinking like that, I just ask God, why did I say "No" to dating in the first place? Then I slap myself in the head and say, "oh yeah". God is always there for me; I'm never alone and he has blessed me with the greatest friends to make sure I never think I'm alone ever again.