First Date—Frog or Prince?

Hello faithful readers.  I apologize for my long absence.  The summer season is in full swing and it seems that with it has come a packed schedule.  I can assure you that all the while I have been thinking of ideas for my blog posts … I just had to find the time to type them up.  Luckily I have found a brief window of time in which to share my newest insight into life.  This week I would like to talk about the first date. 

Throughout our lives we will have many first dates.  They will range from disastrous to amazing. I want to talk about what makes that amazing date so amazing … and what makes that disastrous night such a disaster. 

I hate the question “what is your ideal first date.”  It is my belief that what makes a date so amazing or ideal is the company.  It doesn’t matter if you are in a fancy five star restaurant or at a pizza place. If the chemistry is there, everything else fades away.  At some point in the evening, after the nervous and awkward fade away there will be a moment in which you can actually feel the click of chemistry between you.  The conversation is flowing like two people who have known each other a life time and all you can think about is whether or not that first kiss will be coming at the end of the evening. 

Inevitably with the good comes the bad.  Unfortunately we have all had those first dates where you are left thinking “what is the fastest way out of here.”  Amongst the painful silence and awkward conversation you find yourself thinking of the best way in which gracefully make your exit.  You find yourself thinking “he must be feeling it too and hopefully will not be trying to kiss me later.”  You want to be polite and thank them for the evening but you find your mind wandering to a scene in a movie where the girl pretends to get a phone call and ditches her date.  You find yourself wondering … does that really work. This disastrous date can’t end fast enough.  Unfortunately there is no real reason other than the spark just wasn’t there.  There was something about that person that just didn’t click with you.

I am a firm believer in the old saying “Every pot has a lid.”  There is someone for everyone and all we have to do is find them. In order to find them we have to go through the follies of first dates and doomed relationships.  We have to kiss a lot of frogs before we get to the prince … but, take it from me, ladies, the prince is worth the wait.