A friend of mine once tried to push me to date a girl that I wasn’t really excited about. She insisted that my feelings for this girl might develop over time if I would just “give her a chance.” So I tried. I rationalized. I told myself I wasn’t dating anyone else, so it would benefit me to give this relationship a shot. I tried to convince myself that my interest would grow, and that such developments could occur in the soul of a man.
They didn’t.
There are two camps in the dating world. The first camp is made up of people who only date people who they are really, really excited about dating. They might go for long periods of time without dating because they haven’t found someone that really excites them or captivates their interest. On the other side is the second camp of people who believe in what I call, “dating for the sake of dating.” These people will date anyone and everyone either because they feel as though maybe they can develop an interest over time, or because they find it good “practice.” There’s also actually a third camp that involves 45-year old men living in their parents’ basements, but…that’s a comic strip for another day…