The Cyclo-cross season draws to a close. Like races, life may be disappointing at times, but we all need to celebrate the small victories. I had fun. I made a bunch of buddies this year, and it's kinda sad to realize that I won't see alot of them for the next 9 months. Good thing there is twitter yo. I had a restful and rather lonesome week after the mabra championships. To celebrate a small victory at work, I bought myself a necklace of a beaver holding a heart. And as cheesy as it sounds, I watched this movie 'paper <3'. If you don't know what it's about, it's a movie about filming a documentary about Charlyne who goes on a quest to find out about a topic she doesn't understand... <3. Well, I've never been in love or anything like that, and I feel like I've always been kind of socially isolated (this may explain my awkwardness to some of you) due to a variety of reasons. College made me really socially isolated because I couldn't relate to any of my peers. But, at that time when you will never in your life be in an environment with so many sexually active unmarried people... there was me. Me: someone who doesn't drink, really shy, introverted, akward, and spent most waking hours in the bowels of the library. You can imagine how many heads I was turning especially when I told guys that I had never played a game of beer pong. It's not like I wasn't looking but, at that time, I didn't really understand that college kids just don't really go on dates and stuff.
To me, America seems so different as to what is romantically acceptable and what is not. People have so much sexual freedom but I feel like that it is abused alot. There is this whole hook-up culture which is basically, a way to enjoy all the benefits of adult relationships with none of the emotional responsbility, connection, caring, and commitment that goes along with them. I don't even want to go into how I think the hookup culture is a lose-lose situation for women because I might come off the wrong way. But I'll just say this that the hookup culture leaves young adults ill-equipped to deal with serious relationships because they're basically as emotionally mature at 28 as they were at 18.
But I've been asking the same questions as Charlyne's character does since I was like a pre-teen. Like how do you know if you're capable of love or does true love really exist or is it a thing that people only experience in made-up movie worlds? Maybe one day I will know the answers... maybe not.
Wednesday Standard Volume 12
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1 comment:
Hi, stumbled across your blog by way of Dan Langlois.
I haven't seen (or in-fact heard of) the film to which you refer but I hear you on the whole "hookup culture leaves young adults ill-equipped to deal with serious relationships because they're basically as emotionally mature at 28 as they were at 18".
I work with guys who are in their early thirties still looking for serious relationships through Facebook et al. not understanding why they can't get a 'serious' relationship or anything to last even longer than a fortnight.
Go to a bar I say, chat someone up, get to know them, don't base the whole relationship on their profile pic (which they will never live up to) and how willing they are to 'put out' on a first meeting (I chose not to use teh word date).
Interesting to see you have hooked up with Unattached. I wear their kit (as opposed to ride for them) at events, always gets heads turning, and no I'm not advertising my 'relationship status'. Jeez, if one more person asks me that!
Oh yeah and, true love really does exist.
Chr15
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