I’ve never done online dating.
What if I couldn’t read? I wouldn’t be able to text my friends movie times or even order cheese biscuits from Red Lobster!
You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It’s a one-man play.
Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn’t really channel them.
Like most fedora wearers, he had a lot of inexplicable confidence.
When I’ve really been in love with someone, it’s not because they looked a certain way or liked a certain TV show or a certain cuisine. It’s more because when I watched a certain TV show or ate a certain cuisine with them, it was the most fun thing ever.
Why do we all say we prefer honesty but rarely give that courtesy to others?
In a sense we are all like a Flo Rida song: The more time you spend with us, the more you see how special we are. Social scientists refer to this as the Flo Rida Theory of Acquired Likability Through Repetition.
There’s not a dating service on this planet that can do what the human brain can do in terms of finding the right person.
The world is available to us, but that may be the problem.
I hope you aren’t holding an ice cream cone against your chest, ’cause your heart just warmed – and your ice cream just melted.
While we may think we know what we want, we’re often wrong.
For me the takeaway of these stories is that, no matter how many options we seem to have on our screens, we should be careful not to lose track of the human beings behind them. We’re better off spending quality time getting to know actual people than spending hours with our devices, seeing who else is out there.
If passionate love is the coke of love, companionate love is like having a glass of wine or smoking a few hits of some mild weed.
No matter how many options we have, the real challenge is figuring out how to evaluate them.
Your most casual encounter could lead to something bigger, so treat those interactions with that level of respect.
As a medium, it’s safe to say, texting facilitates flakiness and rudeness and many other personality traits that would not be expressed in a phone call or an in-person interaction.
We want something that’s very passionate, or boiling, from the get-go. In the past, people weren’t looking for something boiling; they just needed some water. Once they found it and committed to a life together, they did their best to heat things up. Now, if things aren’t boiling, committing to marriage seems premature.
Finding someone today is probably more complicated and stressful than it was for previous generations – but you’re also more likely to end up with someone you are really excited about.
There are no longer any predetermined life paths. Each of us is on our own.