Say No To Texts
In this day in age, physical human interaction has plummeted while communication via text message has sky rocketed! The dynamic of dating has shifted from a man meeting you at your doorstep wearing a pearly white smile to sending a "good morning, beautiful" text message every day. What my generation knows to be dating is what our elders would call a simple friendship! It was only a night ago - after an unstimulating text message "conversation" - that I thought about what it would have been like to date before this modern era when phones were solely used to make a call & entertainment came from interacting with the outside world! I imagine that it was considerably better than having a man (who's never called my phone) text me and say "What we have is special." - Yes, that happened.
Sometimes a woman - even one who's as withdrawn as I am - hopes for a bouquet of roses to be delivered to her door for no special reason other than 'just because'. Some days we look at our silent phones (or not-so-silent with meaningless texts coming in) and wish that it would ring & we'd hear a man's voice on the other end saying "I want to take you out tonight, can you be ready by seven o'clock?". I know, I know.. it sounds like I want to reenact a classic romantic film. But maybe I do. Due to personal experience, I feel as if romance is a foreign or forgotten language to my generation.
These days, we feel honored to be invited over to watch him play with the new play station! I know not all men are the same, but not enough men are different! It would be refreshing to be picked up for a night by a gentleman who meets me at my door, walks beside me to the car as he proceeds to open the door & close it after I slide in. It would be refreshing to have an insightful discussion over dinner as he stares into my eyes as if I'm as beautiful or as interesting as the sunset.
I'm annoyed with emotionless conversation. I'm annoyed with hanging out within the four walls of a house. I'm annoyed with the confusion between romance and lust. I'm annoyed with my generation's idea of dating. You can call this a rant-post; or you can call this my light-bulb moment! Either way, I'm done patting men on the back for simply being around. I want more. I deserve more. So I'm requiring more!
Cheers to no more "text-ationships"!
Sometimes a woman - even one who's as withdrawn as I am - hopes for a bouquet of roses to be delivered to her door for no special reason other than 'just because'. Some days we look at our silent phones (or not-so-silent with meaningless texts coming in) and wish that it would ring & we'd hear a man's voice on the other end saying "I want to take you out tonight, can you be ready by seven o'clock?". I know, I know.. it sounds like I want to reenact a classic romantic film. But maybe I do. Due to personal experience, I feel as if romance is a foreign or forgotten language to my generation.
These days, we feel honored to be invited over to watch him play with the new play station! I know not all men are the same, but not enough men are different! It would be refreshing to be picked up for a night by a gentleman who meets me at my door, walks beside me to the car as he proceeds to open the door & close it after I slide in. It would be refreshing to have an insightful discussion over dinner as he stares into my eyes as if I'm as beautiful or as interesting as the sunset.
I'm annoyed with emotionless conversation. I'm annoyed with hanging out within the four walls of a house. I'm annoyed with the confusion between romance and lust. I'm annoyed with my generation's idea of dating. You can call this a rant-post; or you can call this my light-bulb moment! Either way, I'm done patting men on the back for simply being around. I want more. I deserve more. So I'm requiring more!
Cheers to no more "text-ationships"!
