December 4, 2008

• My (Im)Perfect Storm Theory

  Dec 1^st (First day on front page)

  
  

  Dec 4^th (Few days later)

  
  

  *Looks at view count* !!!!!!
  

  That.  Is.  Ridiculous.
  

  Seriously, thank you for the amazing comments you all have given me over the past couple of days.  I’ve been overwhelmed with a lot of new subscribers and friend requests ever since I was featured and I’ll slowly but surely tend to that.  If I keep seeing you pop up on my blog, I’ll probably friend you back sooner rather than later, just because it will remind me to go deal with that.

  I never thought I would get so much attention from that one silly post.  Don’t worry, the added attention won’t go to my head.  Trust me, my head is pretty huge already (physically I mean; runs in the family ) so it really doesn’t need to get any bigger. 

  Alright, so I told myself that I wasn’t going to write another relationship-related entry for a while.  If any of you have read some of my other posts, you would see I write about a variety of things involving pop culture, my life, etc.  However, something s0rair0 wrote to me about the other day got me really starting to think.  In her comment, she said she couldn’t understand why I’m single.  I thought about it for a while, and in response I told her I had a theory as to why that was the case.
  

  Nooooo, it’s not because I’m secretly a very smelly, hairy, toothless old racist man posing as a 22 year old Asian guy from Maryland (in case some of you were wondering that =P).  No, my theory involves several factors, some that are within my control but most that aren’t.  My theory isn’t exactly an excuse, rather just my own personal way of rationalizing to myself what are the factors making me stay put in my current relationship status. 
  

  I’m tentatively naming it my (Im)Perfect Storm Theory.  Why that name?  Well, when I woke up this morning and turned on the TV, The Perfect Storm happened to be playing.  Thus, I’m just going to borrow that title for my theory for now .

  My (Im)Perfect Storm Theory

  
  

  My theory consists of the following six factors that I personally believe has the biggest effects:

  1.  Bad Timing

  2.  Distance

  3.  Being Busy

  4.  Social Circles

  5.  Standards

  6.  Friend Effect
  

  1.  Bad Timing

  By bad timing, I mean it seems like every girl that I would have liked or would have liked me all of a sudden got into relationships right when I got out of one.  Not just any relationships, but freakin’ long term ones that are still going on today.  It’s as if there is a relationship equilibrium that balances out the world and once I got out of a relationship, it felt like the world needed to self-correct itself.

  You might think I’m exaggerating, but I’m serious.  Off the top of my head, I can think of at least four girls that were single during the time I was in a relationship that I could possibly see myself being with.  When I became single, POOF!  Each and every one of them found their special someone within months.

  I felt I had gotten lucky when I discovered there was still this one girl (we’ll call her Apple) that was somehow not taken.  “Yes!  So the relationship gods miss one!” I thought.  Well, at the time I thought Apple wasn’t over her last ex yet and I didn’t want to rush her into anything.  I was really liking her for several reasons (i.e. her spunkiness, sense of humor) and I didn’t want to end up as just a rebound guy.  Unfortunately for me, that hesitation allowed one of her other guy friends to come in and ask her out about a week after I decided I wouldn’t ask her out just yet.  They’re still together to this day.  Just my luck huh? 
  

  Lesson:  If you wait too long for the right moment, that moment will pass you by.  Consider lesson learned.

  2.  Distance

   I wish I had the ability to teleport.  That way, distance wouldn’t cock-block me so, so, so many times.  I don’t know how it happened, but it was as if all the other potential girls I liked (that weren’t in a relationship already) all migrated out of Maryland.  Usually, it was because they had to move or they had to go to an out-of-state college.
  

  This factor was the one that kicked my balls in my last relationship.  We were doing just peachy and were still in the process of getting close, but than she was forced to transfer to another school 4 hours away.  We attempted a long distance relationship but it just wasn’t working out, so we had to call it quits. 

  There’s this other girl I’ve met recently who’s a friend of a friend.  During the few times we hung out I thought she was really cute and has such an optimistic personality.  I couldn’t help but feel good around her each time.  Unfortunately, she’s only here in MD every break or so before she has to go back to a college several states away. 

  Then there was yet another girl (a long time friend) that finally told me she liked me after all these years.  Ah but once again, the relationship gods had her deported elsewhere (many, many states away), too far away to have any real relationship.  Thus, here I am at square one.

  Basically, distance has spank my butt several times -_- .  Oh why distance, why?!  *Shake fists*
  

  ******************COMMERCIAL BREAK***********************

  (The above break was for you, tweeny_tear )

  I think this post will be way too long if I talked about the rest of the factors, so I’ll finish up talking about the other four factors next time I post. 
  

  I find my situation more or less pretty funny, so don’t feel too bad for me (unless you already don’t feel bad, in which case continue on ).  I keep imagining myself in a sitcom where the premise is where one or all of these factors find a way to mess me up in progressively hilarious ways.  Too bad life isn’t like a sitcom where things get resolved with a happy ending in a half hour =P.

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