To love. May we stay away from it when it's not good for us.
I've been having a look at the Lonely Hearts advertisements, and before a certain someone accuses me of cracking onto students, let me just say I was only interested in it from a statistical point of view.
Let's look at the facts.
Half of you specified that you wanted a good conversationalist, which quite possibly might be the more banal thing to ask for ever. Not only because 'good conversationalist' is entirely a matter of opinion, and everyone must be a good conversationalist at some time or another, otherwise they'd have no friends, but because it doesn't guarantee them having a good conversation with you. For that, you'd kind of need to specify a few common interests.
Only half of you did that, so I'm really wondering what the other half of you are going to talk about with your matches.
40% of you said that you are tall. Even letting go of the 'tall is still only a matter of opinion, unless you're 6 foot 4', I ask, why? Unless you are actively looking for someone for whom your height would be the deciding factor, couldn't you have come up with a more interesting adjective? Something unique? Something that might set up apart from the other seven persons of above-average height?
The conclusion I have come up with is that you're all incredibly...the same. You might as well have written 'human being seeks human being' and it wouldn't have made any difference. You're all completely dull, or you're hiding your actual personality away because you're afraid no one will like you if you write down what you're really like, in which case I say to you that you should let it all out there, as they'll find out anyway and it might be better sooner than later.
Honestly, it would have made much more sense to write about your bad points instead. The person you're supposed to end up with isn't someone who loves your good points the most but who can most tolerate your bad ones.
I call it the 'Noble heroes are all alike, but each bastard is a bastard in his own way' principle.
Let's look at the facts.
Half of you specified that you wanted a good conversationalist, which quite possibly might be the more banal thing to ask for ever. Not only because 'good conversationalist' is entirely a matter of opinion, and everyone must be a good conversationalist at some time or another, otherwise they'd have no friends, but because it doesn't guarantee them having a good conversation with you. For that, you'd kind of need to specify a few common interests.
Only half of you did that, so I'm really wondering what the other half of you are going to talk about with your matches.
40% of you said that you are tall. Even letting go of the 'tall is still only a matter of opinion, unless you're 6 foot 4', I ask, why? Unless you are actively looking for someone for whom your height would be the deciding factor, couldn't you have come up with a more interesting adjective? Something unique? Something that might set up apart from the other seven persons of above-average height?
The conclusion I have come up with is that you're all incredibly...the same. You might as well have written 'human being seeks human being' and it wouldn't have made any difference. You're all completely dull, or you're hiding your actual personality away because you're afraid no one will like you if you write down what you're really like, in which case I say to you that you should let it all out there, as they'll find out anyway and it might be better sooner than later.
Honestly, it would have made much more sense to write about your bad points instead. The person you're supposed to end up with isn't someone who loves your good points the most but who can most tolerate your bad ones.
I call it the 'Noble heroes are all alike, but each bastard is a bastard in his own way' principle.