Without trying to sound like the "typical" adult "know it all", I might add in here that, with youth, there is a certain amount of impatience with life. Well, it seems to me from the people I know in the age group of 16-22. I'm not sure if the world is in a deeper state of gloom these days and some feel they need to have everything quicker before it all ends or what.
I'm not so old that I don't remember the pain of having feelings for someone and to have them ignored. I remember sitting on a riverbank in the hills of North Carolina with a rifle in my hand at age 19. So, I think I can empathize a bit.
And though it sounds really lame, your life will change, you will mature more (I still gain maturity even at my age, so don't take it as an insult
), and you WILL see that nice guys do NOT finish Last. Just remember, those girls have to mature also
.