I get it. I really do. You meet a guy/girl. You hit it off.
You take a couple shots, exchange a kiss or two, and wam, bam, skidoosh, you
wake up the next morning next to them.
You skip out (or they do, depending on the location of the
fornication) but you still hope for the call that, often, never comes.
I get the disappointment. And I get the blaming. You blame
yourself, you blame the guy/girl, and, above all else, you blame hook up
culture.
Well fear not! I have cited an article above that explains
to you the steps you need to take in order to counter act hookup culture!
Keep in mind, this article is by no means a groundbreaking
article. There are many just like it littered across the internet amongst the
pages of TSM, Upworthy, and Thought Catalog. But, among its sage and well
researched advice, this article gives you the keys to your future relationships
and happiness…
Unless, of course, you know, it doesn’t.
I’m going to get crazy radical on the internet here and say
maybe the problem isn’t hook up culture. Maybe, now stay with me here because I’m
about to say something completely unheard of, there isn’t actually a problem at
all.
You don’t have to hook up with people to get a relationship.
But you don’t have to abstain from hooking up with people to get a relationship
either. Relationships are not that black and white. What works for some people,
won’t work for others. Giving a blanket list of rules of what you should do to
fight a nonexistent problem is ludicrous.
Sure, I suppose, in general, if you really like someone, you
probably shouldn’t sleep with them immediately… but, shit, sometimes it works
out with that person anyway. Life is weird like that.
One of my favorite lines in movie history is from the movie “He’s
Just Not That Into You.”:
“All my friends used to tell me
about how things might work out with these dipshits because they knew someone,
who knew someone, who dated a dipshit just like mine and that girl ended up
getting married and living happily ever after. But, that’s the exception and we're
not the exception. We're the rule.”
And I fully agree with that statement… as a rule.
But, in life, there are always exceptions. And the
exceptions are the ones you wait around for.
So you can continue following all the rules you want to, as
long as you remember that they are rules not guarantees. And rules are meant to
be broken especially when following them doesn't promise you anything.
Use your judgment and do the things that make you happy.
Yeah, you’re going to meet some dipshits who you should have avoided in the
first place but you typically don’t figure that out until it’s too late anyway,
so don’t beat yourself up over it. Keep doing you, and you’ll meet a good one
or two.
And let’s be honest: if someone is really going to write you
off because you didn’t wait the socially acceptable amount of time to sleep
with them (which is different for everyone, by the way), that person probably
sucks anyway and you’re better off without them. ON TO THE NEXT ONE!
Keep Keeping It Real,
Little Tornado
** This is advice coming from some random 22 year old that
typed this up during her lunch break at her internship and forgot to run it
through spell check. If you want to take it as scripture, that’s your
prerogative. But, this same random 22 year old wouldn’t recommend it strongly.
The only thing this random 22 year old would recommend strongly is finding
yourself a delicious slice of macaroni and cheese pizza, pictured above.
Because, out of everything in this post, that is the only thing scientifically
proven to be delicious.
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