Radically re-thinking contemporary dating behaviour.
How many times have you created, wrote, rewritten, deleted, and signed up again on the various online dating websites in the last few years? The thing is, you are not the only one. I am right there with you.
A few weeks ago, Amy Web's book Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match was released with the usual hype books deemed "best seller trade" by publishers. I have yet to review the book - and I will because I am curious. But it made me think a little more about a recent article I read critiquing the way we have come to believe our online dating profile stats as the measure of match success:
The thing is – the wonderful thing is – if your heart is open, if your curiosity is great, if your enthusiasm for life abounds, potential soul-mates will keep skipping toward you out of the mist, far more attractive than the army of zombies that, for some reason, is the image that mists suggest to me. They will just keep coming. But who among will really be your “other half”?
Put another way, “how many shared authors, bands, beliefs, preferences, sexual kinks does it take to screw in a soul-mate?”
At what percentage point of “OMG!” do you so “click” into place like a divine zipper so that it feels like pre-destiny?
51%? 75?% 90%? 100% (as if that were possible among two evolved adults) I have a radical answer to this.
It’s the wrong question.
Intrigued? Adam Gilad is the author and he calls this A Radical Thought on Your Soulmate(s). Read on!