[Anyone else have "confirm email address" popup annoyance?]

Yep, mine won't go away either, even though I've confirmed it twice. No big

[I feel like I've been robbed of my youth somehow]

I'm 18, after being in college a week I found out I have herpes.

 

I know it's not the end of my life, but it feels like the end of being young.

 

Like this will ruin college for me, I'm losing any opportunity to sleep around. I know of course that sleeping around is bad and I really didn't have much intention of doing it, but now that I know I don't have the option, I miss it. From now on every time I sleep with anyone it has to be some big, long, drawn-out, emotional ordeal in which I have to basically ask this person to risk their health to be with me. I miss simplicity. I miss being your average teenager and I mourn that fact that I never even got a chance to be a normal college kid. It's so depressing. It's like a challenge to wake up every morning and try not to feel bad about myself. I feel like everyone should have had some chance to make completely stupid mistakes as a young person that they learn from. I guess this is the only one I get to make, now I just have to grow up.