A certain lower tier celebrity I follow has a hard time with the ladies. One of his most notorious statements concerns people who advise him to only go after women who are in his "league." He dramatically leans into the microphone and says, "I don't believe in leagues." I guess I do believe in leagues as far as dating women.
I've been thinking about the women I've known since 2003, and I can think of six women since then I've been on at least one date with that I consider within my league. A couple of them I had intimate encounters with, one of them presented me with an opportunity that I turned down, and a few more it never came to that for various reasons.
One thing they all have in common resides in the fact that I never really had to have any real finesse or skill to go out with them on at least one date. I never really had to successfully negotiate my way through some romantic love equivalent of a fight or flight dilemma to get or give out contact information and go on at least one date with any of them.
I thought about these things today after I considered the idea of trying to make it about this or that waitress or barista or ice cream parlor girl or what have you. I never really had to "make it about" any of these women in my league. They just kind of offered themselves to me on a particular occasion or another.
I really hope I'm done with aspiring to get with twenty-two year old goddess types. I really hope I'm done with trying to show up at a particular restaurant or coffee shop or comic book store to see whether or not this or that employee has taken an interest in me. Earlier today I told myself that I would give this one particular deal with one of these employee types a month to bear fruit, but as these deals always seem to shake out once I put a clock on them, I'm ready to blow the whole thing off after a matter of hours.
I've been thinking about the women I've known since 2003, and I can think of six women since then I've been on at least one date with that I consider within my league. A couple of them I had intimate encounters with, one of them presented me with an opportunity that I turned down, and a few more it never came to that for various reasons.
One thing they all have in common resides in the fact that I never really had to have any real finesse or skill to go out with them on at least one date. I never really had to successfully negotiate my way through some romantic love equivalent of a fight or flight dilemma to get or give out contact information and go on at least one date with any of them.
I thought about these things today after I considered the idea of trying to make it about this or that waitress or barista or ice cream parlor girl or what have you. I never really had to "make it about" any of these women in my league. They just kind of offered themselves to me on a particular occasion or another.
I really hope I'm done with aspiring to get with twenty-two year old goddess types. I really hope I'm done with trying to show up at a particular restaurant or coffee shop or comic book store to see whether or not this or that employee has taken an interest in me. Earlier today I told myself that I would give this one particular deal with one of these employee types a month to bear fruit, but as these deals always seem to shake out once I put a clock on them, I'm ready to blow the whole thing off after a matter of hours.
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