thing to consider the difference between actually falling in love, ie, feeling a very strong attraction, knowing the person etc, and just having a crush or liking someone.
I've occasionally been minorly attracted to people, it happens, but usually that is all it is.
the really serious, painful "love" thing takes longer to happen and generally is as much about the person's personality, interests etc as about their looks or voice or external type of stuff.
I first fell in love at the end of secondary school when I was 17, In I believe what would be 12th grade in the usa system.
It was ironic because apparently lots of my friends could see strong attraction even before I was aware of it.
I told her how I felt just before we all left to go to uni, she was extremely kind about it, she kissed me on the cheek and told me how certain she was I'd find someone.
It happened a couple of times after that, always with a long time friend, always fairly seriously though usually it never got so bad I was in the position where I had to tell the person or have my head exploed. Ironically when it happened in 2012 my first thought was "oh god not again!" I didn't tell the person in that case.
Even when I told my lady in July of 2015 things weren't easy since she was with someone else at the time, indeed I never expected we would! end up together, I just wanted to relieve the pressure.
I don't know if there is an answer, since the hole ridiculously silly sexist business of boys having to pick up mysterious signals and girls waiting to be asked seems so nuts to me, even when you do! have a lot of friends of the opposite gender (all of my life I'd say that probably %70 of my friends in reality are female), and when you add the "weird blind person" syndrome onto thatplaying with the odds stacked against you anyway.
then again, the solutions proposed such as online dating don't work either, mostly owing to how much based on or income that is, (weird blind syndrome again), and of course the fact that frequently online dating sites are hunting grounds for opportunists and predators of both genders anyway.
So the conclusion of this basically is try to be a nice person, make female friends be honest, and hope to get lucky, since hay if I can manage it anyone can .
With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)