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!!
as entertaining as ever if somewhat disappointing - so glad I'm not looking lol Hope at least one decent guy turns up. Just keep swimming!!! and smiling :))))
ReplyDeleteThankfully I haven't actually set any expectations. I'm really quite happy on my own, just thought it might be nice to have somebody to do something with. My theory on relationships at this point is if it is meant to be it will happen. I just have absolutely no way of meeting anyone anymore and thought eHarmony would be helpful - so far it is not. Oh well, live and learn I guess.
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