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I've got this weird little habit about me.... When I'm around other people, I like to just sit back and not observe people, but observe people observing people. For instance, on the bus ride home today, I observed an interaction between two people that i found strangely educational.
There's this girl (let's call her Amy) who rides home every day the same time that I do. She's not ugly, but I'd say she's about 150 pounds from being hot. There's also this guy (Let's call him Joe) who rides at the same time on some days, who is not only "chunky", but has some sort of handicap that impairs half of his body to where it looks like he almost has to drag it when he walks. Also, I don't know if this is truly the case, but he also seems to be a little lacking in the social interaction skills dept. He's overly friendly, and I've seen him just start talking about the most random nonsense to total strangers, who look at him like they want him to shut up, but won't say so because they don't want to be mean.
So one day last week, I see this Joe get off the bus, and as he prepared to get off, he motioned for Amy, who was sitting right next, to him to stand up. She did, and he hugged her vigorously and repeatedly kissed her cheek like a depraved child. After Joe had left, Amy had a conversation with the driver about how she'd given him her number, and about how often he called her. She also mentioned something about how she thought he was a little too friendly.
Flash forward to today: Both Amy and Joe are riding home, but instead of sitting next to each other, they are at opposite ends of the bus. Now here's what I noticed. This guy Joe couldn't stop staring at Amy. Every time I looked over at him, he was staring at her intensely, with a sort of sadness in his eyes. The whole look told that old story of unrequited love. I can only speculate what had happened between them, but I can pretty much guess that Amy had given him the proverbial "Get lost".
Watching this scene unfold started making me think about the human condition, and how bad it feels to be truly lonely. Outside of the picturesque idea of love embellished by Hollywood, there are millions who experience the black void of loneliness on a day to day basis. I really wonder what it would be like to go the rest of my life without knowing the touch of a woman who shares a mutual feeling of love. It may be hard to imagine, but there are obviously more than a few who suffer this exact thing because of some physical or mental malformation.
I don't know if anything can be done for those who suffer from serious physical or mental deformities, but I was thinking of a system they should implement in the spirit of decreasing world loneliness. At a certain age, they should put you in front of a committee that would judge your physical appeal. The results would be tallied, and you would be issued a color cards that would identify you as a member of a certain tier of the rating system. For example-
RED: The most attractive members of the human species
Green: Very attractive, but not supermodel material
Blue: Above average
Black: Ugly motherfucker
....and so on and so one.
This system would be used completely on volunteer basis, but I imagine most would opt to be classified due to the sheer logic of my system. Instead of going through all the hassle of social foreplay, and possible rejection, you could just whip out your card and say "sorry, different colors." I'm sure that some would argue that relationships are based on more than looks, but let's just face the cold reality of it for a minute. People are drawn to those who they know they have some chance in hell of getting with. How many times have you seen a 500 pound man and 500 pound woman as a couple? It's because they know deep down, that they could be the most charming motherfucker on the planet, but short of hitting the lotto and getting rich, they have no chance of hooking up with someone good looking. When you see a couple that look like they belong in a freakshow, it isn't weird. It's perfectly normal. Yeah, they might be extremely ugly, but at least there's someone else who's equally ugly to love them.
My optional system would merely affirm what we already know, and help people find each other. The possibilties for utilization of my system are endless, think about it! One is, they could have conventions for certain color groups. Imagine a gathering of 10,000 average looking people. You're bound to discover "love" in a setting such as this. The opportunity that my system provides of finding someone with physical compatibility should be obvious. No more mind games, or endless wondering, or speculation about how attractive you are to the other person, because the truth is something you can hold in your hand and show everyone.
If you're the amazing kind of person who is smart enough to truly look beyond appearances, than you could just ignore the system entirely, and of course. It's a win-win situation. No one get's hurt, and everyone goes home happy. If only Joe could have seen that his card was purple, and Amy's was gray, he could have moved on with the knowledge that there are a million other purples out there.
598,324,567 people found love with my kick-ass system