My forays into online dating found me, late one night - the night before Thanksgiving, to be IMing several different guys. Both guys mentioned that they didn’t understand why they were single; that they thought they were a ‘great catch’. One guy kept saying how he couldn’t understand why I was still single. As if he’d ever met me in person!
It got me to thinking, ‘Are any of us really great catches after all?’ Of course we all are special in our own way and we’d like to believe that all our little peculiarities and idiosyncrasies would be perfectly charming and adorable to the right person. But really maybe they’d be annoying to almost anyone. Like my habit of always running late. Or licking my plates clean. I mean, I doubt that will be too cute to too many people.
Really, most of us are horribly flawed in many ways; it’s just a matter of finding someone whose flaws are compatible with our flaws. Or someone who is delusional enough to find us utterly charming despite our flaws! Because we all have them.
Don’t get me wrong. I DO think I’m great. And I’m pissed that no one has picked me yet! BUT if I’m such a great catch, than why, every time after I am 'caught', do I find myself tossed right back into the sea? Or really the question might be - why do I toss myself right back into the sea?
And why are there so many fishing analogies for dating anyway?!!
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