Reputations
Today I was informed that I am a bad person, and that I have a reputation for hitting on my friends' ex-girlfriends the day they break up. This bothered me for some time before I remembered I don't care what people think. I stopped caring about my reputation when I stopped letting people walk all over me, stopped agreeing to do things I didn't want to do and go places I didn't want to be.
Nor do I restrict myself to hitting on friends' ex-s. I also hit on friends' current girlfriends, current wives and sometimes their current and former family members too. Its who I am and I'm rarely ashamed, as it takes me months to get to know a girl well enough to hit on her, and more months to ask her on a date. If in that time the girl in question has become available and is interested in dinner and a movie, so much the better. If in that time the girl has remained faithful and un-single then the date tends to be very one-sided and much more a "hanging out with a friend's woman" sort of night, something for which I also have a reputation.
I make mistakes just like other guys, but I am reminded that my mistakes made me the man I am today, and I'm pretty proud of where I am and who I am.
Nor do I restrict myself to hitting on friends' ex-s. I also hit on friends' current girlfriends, current wives and sometimes their current and former family members too. Its who I am and I'm rarely ashamed, as it takes me months to get to know a girl well enough to hit on her, and more months to ask her on a date. If in that time the girl in question has become available and is interested in dinner and a movie, so much the better. If in that time the girl has remained faithful and un-single then the date tends to be very one-sided and much more a "hanging out with a friend's woman" sort of night, something for which I also have a reputation.
I make mistakes just like other guys, but I am reminded that my mistakes made me the man I am today, and I'm pretty proud of where I am and who I am.