‘I’d rather bleed with love, than live without any scars’ (Pink – Love Song).

Do you agree? I thought so. I’m not going to tell you how to find The One, or true love, or even pretend to know about this complex, wonderful and painful phenomenon that is called love, any more than you do. Most people look for the One. I found several Ones. As a very young woman of 8 years old I took a passionate liking to the male protagonists in the films Grease 1 and 2. But of course I then grew up, and fell in love with Bumblebee – the yellow Transformer. You get my point. However, I do have a few pointers which I suggest you read. My line is: you’re an infinite source of fun – so share.

A break-up or a long distance relationship, or any other kind of relationship is much harder to manage than American popular sit-coms suggest, and it doesn’t help to eat ice cream from a bucket. Part of starting a life at Uni’ is shaping your own life and identity, separate from who you were or were with before. This is your chance to find yourself as a grown-up individual and you should embrace it. You can’t fight the fact that the most amazing person who ever walked across this earth lives on another part of this enormous ball of earth. However, a constructive behavior is to let yourself enjoy whatever fun that comes in your path where you are now. Please don’t stay at home and cry into the ice cream about your girlfriend or boyfriend. Put away the ice cream (Ben&Jerry’s is for a fact heavily overrated) and give yourself a hug, which is possible and actually quite pleasant. It is time to take a step into that famous social circle, and make a friend or two. You may not fall out of love, but you can fall in-love again. Here, I’d like to quote Paulo Coelo:  ‘You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.’ Good stuff.

And so, the Love Guru says: Don’t worry, be happy; don’t cling on too much to things that don’t fit right now, time sorts everything out. Try to find positive inputs from new friends and focus on what’s in your life that makes you grow as a person. In the words of Jerry Springer: Take care of yourself, and each other. Before you know it, someone will listen to Pink’s Love Song and think of you.