Dating...on television???
Dating is hard--everyone knows that. It's hard to find someone to date, it's hard to decide what to do on your dates to keep things interesting, it's hard to decide if you should continue dating someone (or maybe it really isn't, and that is just me...)
I was just flipping through stations and caught about five minutes of a show on MTV called The Hook-Up. From the brevity of my viewing, I was able to pick up the basic concept--it's just a dating show. First you narrow it down to two potential dates, they come out, you learn pros and cons, and the person makes a decision on who he/she will go on a date with. Now, maybe it's the introvert in me who has a hard time just going up to members of the opposite sex and talking to them in a place I feel completely secure and safe (like, I don't know, places a person might work, like say, a golf course or an elementary school...completely random choices, of course), but I feel like trying to decide if I should date someone on television would be even more difficult.
First of all, there is the initial look--what if you can't stand the way a guy looks? How do you hide that from thousands of viewers? Then you have the part where you actually have to talk and be charming and not creep people out...I feel a panic attack coming on just thinking about it! Now, I think it would be interesting to learn how many meaningful relationships start on a television game show. You hear statistics about online dating and whatnot, but how many couples that met on Baggage or The Dating Game actually worked out?
And I know, I know, I know. Dating does not have to lead to a serious relationship. I guess it's just the romantic in me who doesn't want to waste a lot of my time with someone I can't see myself marrying (wow, that sounds sooo romantic). Does that mean I'm picky? Yes. Does that mean I'm occasionally shallow? Yes. But if the guy I am thinking about dating does not feel the same way I do about religion, literature, or the Beatles, then I don't see any reason to perpetuate something that already has an expiration date.
Well, this post makes me sound cynical, which wasn't the intention. Truth be told, I would love to find someone who is sweet and charming and knocks me off my feet and shares my interests and accepts my craziness and is adorable, educated, employed and ridiculously handsome, funny, can cook...I could go on and on and on. That is a post for another day and another mood.
Stay gold!
I was just flipping through stations and caught about five minutes of a show on MTV called The Hook-Up. From the brevity of my viewing, I was able to pick up the basic concept--it's just a dating show. First you narrow it down to two potential dates, they come out, you learn pros and cons, and the person makes a decision on who he/she will go on a date with. Now, maybe it's the introvert in me who has a hard time just going up to members of the opposite sex and talking to them in a place I feel completely secure and safe (like, I don't know, places a person might work, like say, a golf course or an elementary school...completely random choices, of course), but I feel like trying to decide if I should date someone on television would be even more difficult.
First of all, there is the initial look--what if you can't stand the way a guy looks? How do you hide that from thousands of viewers? Then you have the part where you actually have to talk and be charming and not creep people out...I feel a panic attack coming on just thinking about it! Now, I think it would be interesting to learn how many meaningful relationships start on a television game show. You hear statistics about online dating and whatnot, but how many couples that met on Baggage or The Dating Game actually worked out?
And I know, I know, I know. Dating does not have to lead to a serious relationship. I guess it's just the romantic in me who doesn't want to waste a lot of my time with someone I can't see myself marrying (wow, that sounds sooo romantic). Does that mean I'm picky? Yes. Does that mean I'm occasionally shallow? Yes. But if the guy I am thinking about dating does not feel the same way I do about religion, literature, or the Beatles, then I don't see any reason to perpetuate something that already has an expiration date.
Well, this post makes me sound cynical, which wasn't the intention. Truth be told, I would love to find someone who is sweet and charming and knocks me off my feet and shares my interests and accepts my craziness and is adorable, educated, employed and ridiculously handsome, funny, can cook...I could go on and on and on. That is a post for another day and another mood.
Stay gold!
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