August 19, 2008
Whatever happened to the old fashioned way of meeting someone? When did our world get so desperate for love that they had to go to eHarmony or Match.com in order to meet the person of their dreams?
I have heard some weird ways people hooked up. But what I don’t hear is, “I met this guy in the produce aisle after we reached for the same apple, and he asked me to coffee.” Isn’t that the kind of love you would rather pursue? Instead we would like to talk on the phone or the internet to a person we can all most be positive looks nothing like he or she said. Things can be deceiving. Reading a profile can lie to you.
The latest story I heard that blew my mind was: a guy goes to local gay bars. Not because he is gay, but because he wants to hook up and find true love with a woman! He said that lots of women have gay friends and they will go to gay bars to hang with them.
I can tell you there is no way I would go to gay bar, and if I did, it sure wouldn’t be to find love in a straight guy.
Another person said that the reason they don’t want to meet a guy and get married is because they haven’t found “Mr. Right” yet. When I asked how she was looking for him, she said, I stay home, Mr Right will find me.
Let me tell you men and women, if you think that right person for you is going to come to your front door and you are going to live happily ever after, you need to wake up!
If someone comes to your front door and says they are your soul mate, you call 911, because that is creepy!
Don’t get me wrong, I am sure online dating or finding your soul mate through a phone service works for some people, but realistically, we rely on our phone and internet for everything nowadays, that we are almost becoming lazy. If we center our lives around these two contraptions, we are setting ourselves up to become hermits.
Think about it, we can do our banking, buy groceries, find any information possible to do anything we want, have anything shipped to our homes, talk to whomever, see whomever (webcam), rent videos, work from home and even download music and movies. Soon there will be nothing left for us do outside our homes; we will all become strangers to the outdoors.
So why don’t we forget about the online dating services and do things right? Get to know someone face to face and not through a computer screen or telephone line.
