and hope is a dangerous emotion.
Sure hope can fuel dreams, help you overcome obstacles and all - but it is just a few clicks away from expectations - which go unrealized quite often.
So one is free to create a profile in the online dating world...but then one must be prepared to get emails from one-legged, 300-pound toads who can hardly string together a group of words into coherence.
For example...an except from a recent email:
I notice you have rode on kayaks on that picture. Love it ride on kayaks too:) I sometime go out on weekend to ride on kayaks when nice weather.
I can promise you, that the excerpt is a direct cut and paste. Not embellished to get a chuckle.
Now of course I could laugh it off and be grateful for the blog material...
Or I could review my profile to see exactly what compels these type of women to reach out to me...
Or I could, as a person struggling to stitch together at least one week of happiness, choose to see these romantic advances as proof that my sense of self worth has been greatly exaggerated.
Here is another:
HEY THERE I LIKE KIDS HOW ARE YOU WANT TO HAVE SOME COFFEE
OK people. Don't type in all caps. It looks like you are an idiot who yells. And the world hates loud idiots even more than they hate quiet idiots. Another tip is to not freak out a mom by telling her you like kids. Like kids how exactly? As playmates? Served over rice with some orange duck sauce? And how about considering some punctuation? Maybe that is asking too much...
Perhaps I should give up nursing and be an online dating consultant.
