Over the past week or so, I've noticed a few attractive young woman talking to me or otherwise vying for my attention. Okay, I'll just say it.  I think that the former cashier from that grocery store wants me to feel wanted and loved.  I think I see her in a whole new light, now.  I think my posts that talked about wanting to be friends with that former cashier marked a breakthrough in our, hopefully, FORMERLY stalemated deal.

Now, I have no idea whether or not that former cashier will show up in my world in the coming days or weeks, but I think my desire to at least be friends with her resonated with a lot of women out there.  I think these women have a sincere wish that more men could accept the realities of so many women they desire and vie for a friendship with such women when these men feel no romantic love relationship seems possible.

Well, if that's the case, I feel as if I can just enjoy my life as is and not necessarily try to get a bunch of dates with these young women that now talk to me as of this past week or so.  This post may seem like grandiose, delusional nonsense to a lot of people out there, but I'm just trying to add things up.  If it's all the same to those out there, I'll play to the notion that the former cashier has a hand in the attention I've been getting from attractive young women lately. 

Does anyone out there remember my post about "cooling myself out of the picture?"  What if I do just that, now?  Will I stupidly let opportunities to get with very attractive young women slip through my fingers if I even FLIRT with the notion of cooling myself out of the picture?  I'm curious about that.  The possible ramifications of coming off as cool about this attention from attractive, young women, should it last, intrigues me more than trying to, figuratively, catch falling drops of scattered rain by running after each falling drop with cupped hands. 

Okay, so now, from where I sit, it looks as if there is no very attractive young woman in my world who has been really shitty to me since, say, last April, who now has an interest in getting to know me better.  Okay, that means I'm free to continue on with the concepts in my last post speaking purely in hypotheticals.  So, IF there actually existed a very attractive young woman in my world that actually did want to get to know me better as of this writing, here's why I would vie for a platonic friendship with such a person.  I would trade an "opportunity" to get with such a person intimately, and by extension, romantically for being treated in a kind and loving manner by such a person in the context of a platonic friendship ANY...FUCKING...DAY.  Any day, oh yeah. You betcha. If the only way I could be treated like an actual human being by such a person more likely resides in the sphere of a platonic friendship, I'll take the platonic friendship over the supposed opportunity to get with such a person in an intimate, romantic way.  Absolutely, no question. 

If some really attractive young woman who has been shitty towards me in the past few months wants to now get to know me better, I would say yes to that.  Here's the catch, this hypothetical attractive young woman would have to accept getting to know me better on MY TERMS.  My terms are, I will accept being platonic friends with such an as-of-now hypothetical young woman.  I mean by "platonic friends" the following:  they can date whomever the hell they want except me.  That's right, it's the same deal I was willing to offer that former cashier from that grocery store I still patronize.  She never showed.  What I'm saying then, is if anyone out there in my world wants to step up and take that former cashier's place, then by all means, be my guest.  We can be platonic friends.  

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