1 August 2013
per·cep·tion
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Well I have been an eHarmony member for a little under two
months now, and to say that I was disappointed with the results thus far would
be an understatement. I don't know that I ever expected to find the love of my
life with this, but I did expect to at least get some kind of reaction, maybe a date or
two and some interesting blog content. But no, I got nothin’ – zip – zilch – niente
- nada!! I quit counting how many matches they have sent me – six a day
apparently, and out of all that, I have only had three people contact me. There was
the guy down in The Keys; I ended up not responding to the last three questions
because I just really wasn't interested. There was the 83 year old guy from
Punta Gorda that wanted to bypass the procedure and go straight to email – once
again I was not interested. I had one other guy from somewhere in the state of
Florida that sent me the first five questions, him I actually found interesting
and moderately attractive, so I answered the questions, but haven't heard anything back from him since. I sent the first five questions out to three guys and never even got a response.
I think the problem is probably a combination of esthetics
and expectations. You see, what I am looking for is this:
But what I am getting is this:
Rather disappointing really – and with all due respect to
Keith, he was never really all that good looking in the first place. But he IS married to a
supermodel, which disproves the Beatles’ theory that “money can't buy me love”.
I don't know what aggravates me more, the fact that I ‘busted
my hump’ (strange saying) losing 31 pounds and two pant sizes before signing up for a year? That I
signed up for a YEAR!! And paid for
it in advance!! Or the fact that out of close to THREE HUNDRED allegedly “perfect” matches, NOBODY is even viewing my profile!?! I guess I didn't realize that I
was so hideous that no one would even want to read what I had to say. I guess that's what I get for posting a recent picture!
But that just brings us back to esthetics and expectations
again doesn't it? What they are expecting to find is this:
But what they are seeing is this:
Well, the truth is we all get old, if we are lucky – and even the
most beautiful supermodel of her time:
Ended up doing all of this:
And even with all that, she
can still manage to have days when she looks like this! And she is nine years younger than me!
I'm not actually criticizing
Janice – hell, if I had the money I would get my face done, buy
some boobs, hire a personal trainer, and a dietitian, and then I am going to
drastically lower the age limit on my eHarmony profile!!
Don't forget to feed the
fish!!
