The reason I was able to date the person I liked right after entering university.

I still remember the day I entered university.

I looked out at the new students in the department gathered in the auditorium and realized something.

There were almost no girls.

Only 10% of my department were women. In other words, there were a lot of boys.

Some might think that sounds popular. But in reality, it's different. When there are too many choices, people actually become unable to move.

Among them was him.

A fair-skinned, quiet boy with a somewhat delicate atmosphere. He was a pure, only child who had come from the countryside.

I had also just come from the countryside.

For some reason, I was interested in him.

What I did was simple.

I told my male friends around me this:

I like [Name].

That was it.

I didn't plan it. I just said it honestly.

But this gradually had an effect.

Rumors spread naturally. It reached his ears. An awareness was born. We started talking at school.

As people who both came from the countryside, we got along well.

I didn't do anything special. We just spent more and more time together.

And then in spring, his birthday arrived.

I said, "I'll celebrate with you," and went to his house with a cake.

That day, we started dating.

We spent four years together.

He would come to pick me up after my part-time job. It was like we were living together. We went on trips. We were together almost every day.

After graduation, I became a company employee, and he went on to graduate school. We broke up as a natural progression.

I was sad, but I had no regrets.

Because it was four years where I could be with the person I liked as much as I wanted.

Looking back, there were only three things I did.

I said out loud that I liked him.
I closed the distance between us by finding common ground as fellow country folk.
I created the opportunity of his birthday myself.

It wasn't a technique. But it definitely worked.

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