Dating is pretty much a pain. You thought it was bad in middle school when you had to have at least 2 go-betweens to find out if somebody liked you or not? Try not having any go-betweens now. You're all on your own. Yeah, isn't that fun? At least in middle school, it's pretty clear cut. You hold hands with someone, and boom, you're "dating". Granted, that's the extent of a "date" in middle school, but it is what it is. You're probably still wary about that cooties myth.
Nowadays, people are incapable of saying the word "date." Seriously. You ask someone to go do something, and you label it by what you're doing, not by saying "date." When people question you about it, you just shrug.
To make us feel better about being incapable of calling something a "date" because we are in denial that it IS really a date, we've come up with the term "pseudo-date." A "pseudo-date" is something that has potential to be a date because there is interest from both parties, but it has never been confirmed to be such and thus could really just be two friends hanging out. It could be quantified as a date later on, but only if it goes well and both people are feelin' it by the end of the night.
How lame are we?! There was once a time where people would either have a date, or they wouldn't. It was as simple as that. Now everyone gets so uptight about friendships with people of the opposite sex and always wanting to know what's going on that we've become really stingy about using the word "date." As if dating wasn't complicated enough!!
~"I really wanna care. I wanna feel something. Let me a dig a little deeper -- nope, sorry, nothin'." ["My Give A Damn's Busted" - Jo Dee Messina]~
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