Posted: Apr 3, 2008, 10:16 AM CST
My, how things change.....
There was a time when it all started with eye contact. That initial 'ping' that gets your radar zipping. The signal that allows you the next move.
The smile, or non. The body language which says 'Hello', or 'Slow down' or 'Buzz off'.
Conversation. You ask. You listen. You answer.
And if so, the chemistry. No reaction; slow reaction; explosive reaction.
Signals that you can read, feel, understand. Human contact.
Somewhere in the rush for success, we seem to have become foriegn to all this. We don't have time for small pleasures. Too engrossed in our self made personal universe. We want. Now.
With the advent of this technology, it has become possible to go further in one's search. But for what? For the perfect match? A soulmate? And by which rules?
Does one try to attract by being witty? Or cool? Or intelligent? Or what?
Or are we all craving that one thing that we seem to have lost along the rush of our lives......human contact?
Experience teaches that expectations are mostly self imposed illusions. It is an illusion to believe happinness is the result of a knight in shining armour galloping into our lives. (Or a shining princess of the laughing eyes....or whatever) Nobody has the magic wand to change our lives to the better. It is a prerogative that lies solely in our own hands.
It is a new experience for me being here. I find computers cold, impersonal. And yet, they now provide that necessary link to communicate, to express, to widen horizons. And ultimately, to play the mating game too.
In a fast changing world, it is safer being at home with a fire burning in the room, privately writing down one's thoughts. And as time rolls on, you realise how small your universe really is. And how wonderful it is that such technology allows you to reach further then you ever thought possible.
One thing it cannot provide.......
Ahhhhh....but for the scent of a woman!
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