WTF
Okay, so I was watching a movie and in it the leading woman is upset by all of the relationships her boyfriend has had in the past. She wanted to know all about them but, he didn't want to talk about it, wanted to leave the past in the past. The strange thing to me was not the fact that she was being pyscho about his past relationships and stirring up trouble in an otherwise stable and happy relationship, I'm far too at home with crazed chicks sabotaging their love lives. What amazed me was the sheer volume of relationships the people in the movie had been involved in. I mean the guy in question seemed to have dated at least 25 women in the past....thats alot of people! I want to know if thats normal. DO people in fact date that much in order to find THE one? And, if so, am I abnormal for not dating up a storm? Is it weird for me to want to date as few people as possible? AND, if you are the sex before marriage type....thats a lot of promiscuity. This is an insane notion to me, why do certain individuals HAVE to be in a relationship? Is single life so bad. I don't know, I'm single and I seem to be doing fine. Maybe I don't know what I'm missing. Maybe there's this whole other world out there that I cannot even fathom. A world of chocolates in heart shaped boxes, of crimson strawberries floating in fizzing chamgagne. Of romantic getaways to cabins in the frozen Colorado mountains where the weekend is spent lounging in front of a blazing fire while your brawny, cable knit sweater wearing guy fishes rainbow trout out of a little picture-esq stream outside.You wait inside wearing his oversized flannel P.J.s of course, dreaming of his perfectly dazzling smile. Or exotic weeks spent at some white sanded beach where the woman of your dreams frolicks about in the tiniest yet tasteful bikini known to mankind, while you smile out at her from your hammock in the shade wondering how the hell you managed to wrangle the closest thing to a Victoria's Secret you'll ever know. Is that what I'm missing? IS IT?! If it is...I must say I'd prefer quality to quantity. I would much rather have these experiences ONCE with someone I really loved than drone on and on to my bestfriend how yet again my magical midnight redevouz or the romantic cabin weekend was all for nothing.How special is something you've done a million times before? It becomes ritual. Like the order in which you wash your body parts in the shower. Hair, face ,armpits, belly.......whatever. A means to an end, THE end I should say. Because you are doomed to play this game again with the next person untill you've learned that how many bodies you've dated is not as important as who the body is.People rush into these relationships and it's all wild burning passion that fizzles and dies to monotonous drivel once you realize that now you must actually get to know one another. After the first impressions which you now know were lies(but you can't really be cross about this because you have done the exact same thing), all that is left is the boring 20-something guy who goes to school and works at pizza hut. His cable knit sweater is acutally kinda ratty, the fish was bought from the grocery store..in the freezer section, and his teeth are sadly the shade of Country Crock spread. The Hiedi Klum look alike you whisked out to the community pool has a beer gut worse than yours and you realized all that frolicking was a rather ungraceful attempt at reducing the burn of the asphalt on her bare feet.THIS in not what you signed up for! Where is the romance, the mystery?! Well maybe you should have thought about that a few boyfriends ago. Maybe girlfriend #18 was where you should have stopped. MAYBE there is a crazy pattern forming in your life. Why does it always end the same way? Hmmm good question. I'm not saying dating is bad, but hey draw the line somewhere. If you've had 25 girlfriends/boyfriends...and it always seems to go bad, maybe just maybe you have an issue or two.