RetroGamer87 wrote:
hurtloam wrote:
I've got the friend who says I'll just magically find someone if I stop looking.
That's a ridiculous thing for your friend to say. I never had a relationship or a date without actively looking and actively engaging with them.
that's not what that line actually means. it means that you're likely to meet someone with common ground when you least expect it doing activities you are passionately invested in. so, if you love doing a specific activity, and join a group to do it amongst others(obviously, it may be harder to find groups that appeal to both sexes with some interests than others), you are more likely to show your true self through being in your comfort zone in being distracted enough by the enjoyment of the activity to relax and get to know people with similar interests while providing a sincere and natural presentation of yourself... and in such, possibly meet someone were romantic interest is sincere and mutual. if you don't meet anyone, the idea is that you're still enjoying yourself... though the nature of any group activity is people come and go, so even if there is no one there of such interest to begin with, in time someone of intrigue may eventually join. mind, many people do such things around others intuitively in joining others to share in subjects they enjoy(if not in a group, maybe even their job if that's something they're actually passionate about), so they're likely to perceive their experiences in having met someone in such a way as having done so while not looking(mind, that is not necessarily to say that they were looking.)... even though, to the literal mind, it could be interpreted that if you were to take to doing so with such an understanding of the experience, that you'd be looking. scrapping such technicalities, going somewhere to do an activity you greatly enjoy in your free time merely for the sake of self gratification in doing so is actually a decent place to place yourself to potentially meet someone unexpectedly great even if you wish to look avidly in other avenues... however, if you were just to go to an activity you had little to no interest in to meet single people of the desired sex, your emotionally uninvested reasoning for pursuing the specific activity and any anxieties not tangled dormant through focusing on an activity of great interest will more than likely present themselves out of place.
it doesn't mean to write off keeping an eye open for potentially meeting someone, nor to forgo initiative to show interest if you notice someone you may like, in hopes that in time a burglar will break into your home when you least expect it, and that you'll both fall madly in love at first sight. it just means you probably aren't going to meet many potential matches in forcing yourself out to an uninteresting place full of people with little to nothing in common beyond being human that are doing nothing more than standing about exceptionally uncomfortable knowing everyone's sizing each other up and beating the heck out around a bush while decked out in fake personas of social armor in talking about the most banal of banal in small talk pleasantries that safely go nowhere.
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