KISSING DATING GOODBYE: The Kiss That Totally Changed My Life

I’ve been hearing and reading about this book, I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris, way back the early years of my teenage life, but not quite interested in checking it out. I perceived the title so untimely for my stage. Well, who on earth, at this tender age, be ever eager to kiss dating goodbye when he or she haven’t even experienced it in the first place? Maybe some no-way-to-marriage freaks will. But definitely, not me. And I mean a big N-O for that. It seemed to me an impossible statement—too impossible even to read.

“I Kissed Dating Goodbye” appeared to me like an old-fashioned woman campaigning to stop dating and persuading us to go in for marriage. I used to think that saying goodbye to dating meant saying hello to marriage—that’s a pretty serious stuff that, I thought, should only be dealt by grown-ups.

You can’t blame me for that impression, can you? Given the fact that I’m still fourteen that time, I suppose that makes sense. Honestly, at first, I thought to myself, Hey! I’m not prepared to get married…After all, I’m too young! Little did I know that this book was really for me. This is about that and everything about that, just everything every single Christian should know and should live. And this drew me to an overwhelming conclusion: "Don’t judge a book by its TITLE"