Re: Breaking News: Girl doesn't want to get in Jayson's pants afterall
Stop thinking about sex as if it changes you, or her
Does it not? And if it doesn't, what is its purpose?
The catch-22 for me has always been that "easy" girls don't interest me. Dunno why.....
In fact, the more likely I think it is that a girl might be "waiting" as I am, the more interesting I find her. Yet the natural extension of that idea is that it would be arrogant to expect I'm the one she's waiting for; so how can I approach her on that basis? It gets all twisted up in my head. Seriously annoying.
Sometimes I wish I saw the matter in the stereotypical "guy" manner. But I don't, and probably never will.
Of course, it's all academic until I meet someone I'm really attracted to again. That seems to happen once every few years.
And that timetable may be a bit of an exaggeration. I run into girls I think are cute now and then. Some even interest me in some small way. But those who affect me to the point where I'm randomly thinking about them at all hours, unable to concentrate when they get too central on the brain.....that sort is rare for me.
Don't worry about it; really. When you start to worry, just remember that every person is just a person, and that no agenda is best (i.e.
kein agenda, to borrow from German; we don't seem to have a word for "not any"). Consider, too, that the most interesting persons you meet are often the ones you'd never have thought to approach.
Of the persons I've dated, all but one I met when she invited herself into a conversation I was having with someone else. I originally talked to each of them just to be nice. And the one person whom I didn't meet this way, I didn't think to approach when I first saw her, but was introduced to her by one of her friends, who'd sought me out, much to her embarrassment - and to mine - because she thought I was cute, and had been talking about me all afternoon. I only went to talk with the anonymous girl to be nice. I was very surprised to find that she was the person *I'd* been thinking about all afternoon. That made for a beautiful first impression, but it was her grammar I marveled over for days.
I wouldn't have met her - wouldn't have met anyone I've dated - if left to my own devices. And I don't know that we'd have ever gotten anywhere if I'd been concerned anything other than trying to be nice, and finding a way for us both to find something we liked to talk about - every time. I don't usually find myself tied in the knots you describe, but it's easy to let your thoughts run away with you sometimes. When that happens, remember that it's no big deal. Just be nice and enjoy yourself. It's really a lot simpler than it seems.