my rant on being single

I don't think Alabama is as bad as people make it out to be....

Then again, I live in Virginia and there's only so much time you can spend in AL if you live in VA.

 

I agree, it's not so bad. I still have a hard time finding like-minded people though.

I'm also disappointed at how unfriendly a lot of people are. I always smile and say hello to people and few even acknowledge it, they act almost like it's a chore. Maybe it's because I have Texas license plates and don't have a southern accent (half-kidding there), but I'm sick of being polite and not getting a smile in return

There's my rant for the day

 

Well... you could be in New York City and get the same.

It's just the extremities, you know. And it always depends on the people.

 

Yeah, there are unfriendly people everywhere. It's just kind of ironic that people talk of the 'hospitable south' and I've come across few hospitable people. Everyone knows how contagious smiles are, I just want to see some smiles

 

You kinda have to learn how to relate if you don't grow up here or you don't get it.

People are still people no matter what.

 

Exactly.

And amazing people exist anywhere and everywhere.

 

I've spent a lot of my life in the south, this is the second time I've lived here, so it's not because I'm ignorant to their ways. I do suppose you're right though.

 

I was born in Alaska and lived between Virginia and, on occasion, North Carolina...

But I get both invites to keggars with bunches of bubbas and I get invited to smoke circles with, sometimes radical leftists and socialists.

But you still have to have respect from where, and most of all, what someone comes from even if they don't respect you, personally.

It's like walking up to your stereotypical alien lifeform, at times, but it'll do.

If it's one (alright, +/- will do) thing, we all like to get down, we all have blood (though some of it may appear to be piss and vinegar, that's just a trick, I suppose), we all want stuff...

It's just... you know. It's simple. I think people should keep everything that simple.

The human world as we know it could be one guy thinking too hard.

Oh well. Beats me. By the way, I'm not smoking anything... so, no, that isn't the reason.

 

I agree. I'm not disrespecting where or what anyone comes from, it's mostly just that I find it ironic. It is a bit of a disappointment that few smiles are returned, but it doesn't mean I respect them any less. I'll still keep smiling and saying hello.

 

A smile is one of the simplest and most effective things someone can do. There's no need to go through life stone-faced and unpleasant when you can kill two birds with one stone (it makes me happy to smile at people and even happier when they do it back). Maybe I'm too idealistic, I get that a lot.

 

Sometimes it may not be the area, but what people are going through as a demographic group or not, but as citizens of this country in general (or others, but that doesn't apply here)...

I really find it difficult to believe that nobody ever returns anything at all. Then again, maybe you're just really friendly or caring.

Haha... euphemismites... I could write speeches.

 

I didn't say no one ever does, but that I rarely get a positive response. I was in Publix the other day though and there was a really friendly check out lady, there have been some others that are really nice, and that's great...but as a whole they're few and far between. I run into unfriendly people a lot more often than friendly ones. And I wouldn't consider myself to be that friendly, I'm a pretty quiet person and a lot of the time people mistake that as me being cold (so, maybe I'm mistaking others), I just like to give smiles

 

Well, from the sounds of it, you're pretty much like me...

Though I can be quiet... or not, if people are so quick to name something.

 

I'm pretty fuckin tired of being single too. I did a ton of dating in 2006 but only had a couple relationships that lasted for more than a couple months and, yeah. Neither of them worked out either (obviously since I'm still single)

 

Oh my god stop letting guys use you and enjoy yourself! I love nice dates that I would never be able to afford and getting to meet new people. I have made so many good friends being single and love not having any drama in my life...boyfriends are a headache! friends with cuddeling and sushi benefits are so much better!
Just go and have fun girl...don't mope...that's not sexy and isn't going to attract the people you want in your life.

 

I think I just stopped caring. I've been single forever, and I know it will stay that way... it's just my personality, it's who I am. I've never made the slightest attempt at getting a girl to like me, let alone trying to get a girl to sleep with me... ha. I've pretty much come to accept that I'll always be alone. I know that I'll never put forth the effort to find someone, and when someone finds me, I just push them away. Oh well.

I wouldn't mind having some friends here, though. ()

 

I would date you, derek. if like we knew each other in person and you are like you are online.
its the dimples.
(dont hate me haha)

 

I have pretty much returned to this state as well, fellow brother from another mother.

 

I'm tired of being single, too. I've gotten involved with a few different men who act like I'm the best thing that's ever happened to them, how I make them feel so wonderful, but I end up getting the raw end of the deal eventually. I find out that the men I see that they want to break it off with me, but they want to sleep with me a few more times before they do it. Most recently, I got involved with someone I have been friends with for almost 10 years. He goes into this long story about how he's loved me since high school, loves me now, writes poetry about me that he distributes to everyone, but he ended up going back to his ex that he's been on again/off again for the past six months prior to us getting together. Come on! Don't tell me you love me and then get back with your ex in the matter of a week! That's just stupid and manipulative. I always try and get involved with the nice ones and they end up being bigger jerks than the regular jerks. It irritates me that everyone I'm friends with is with someone who doesn't just want them for sex. Hell, I'd even be more accepting of the fact that these men didn't see it going anywhere if it wasn't for the "I want to have sex with her a few more times first and then I'll do it" attitude. Or, you know, being told that I'm loved before I get dumped.

Grr. I think I'm done.

 

It's really one of those can/can't situations... and alot of people are just not content on which side they fall.