So far gone

Well its been a long time since i've updated my dating experience.....still seems like i'm back at square one..

It's so funny that you are a different person every time you introduce yourself to someone......sometimes you might be the funny person, the political person, the jerk, the know-it-all, the very put together person, or the angry person. The same applies to dating and relationships. You present a different side of yourself when you begin dating.

So who are you in your dating/relationship life? Is the person you present a full representation of yourself?

I remember dating a certain someone and I was always so serious, my girlfriend had to ask me if I introduced him to the hilarious part of myself, she wondered if he knew how funny I was. I was so busy taking things serious and being serious I don't think he knew that I knew how to laugh.

The latest dating episode has been with a guy who is 6 years my junior.......it doesn't seem like much, but at this point in my life 6 years is a big difference.....

The first hurdle we had to overcome is communication.....you can not, I repeat, cannot establish anything or get to know anyone over text messages.......it makes communicating some things easier, it is a quick way to communicate and it allows you to communicate when communication is otherwise impossible, i.e., staff meetings, in class, etc. But it is by no means a way to establish anything.

Graduating from HS in 1999, not many people had cell phones.......I had one as a graduation gift, it was big bulky and made by Ericson. When I went to college the cell phone did not follow. In college it appeared that all the upperclassmen had cellphones....or people with jobs or well to do parents. People were limited in their "minutes" of talking time and no one was texting. There were no unlimited talk or data plans.....not yet....I don't even think family plans existed yet.....

Fast forrwad a couple of years, around maybe 04 or 05.....people were still requesting you call them after 7, but text messages were becoming more popular and more people using them...........Now a days, I can't keep up with the text lingo.......the OMG's IDK's, and WYD'ings, are created too fast....

Anyway I say this because I believe I am of the last generation of people who used face to face encounters and actual telephone conversations to establish things. Now kids have cell phones at the age of 12 and by the time they reach 25 they have had a cell phone half of their life.....texting is second nature to them.

I can't rock with that......call my ass.....talk to me, I wanna hear your voice, hear your reaction, hear you laugh or something....

And how annoying is it to be present with someone who isn't present with you? While you are face to face with them,. they are in their phone constantly texting, purusing fb or something else. Multi tasking is one thing, but there is a thin line between multi-tasking and just being plane ole rude......

Anyway the point is establish communication expectations........let him/her know what you expect.....otherwise you'll just be complaining to your friends about it........