I hate dating... I do not like going on dates with anyone that is not you. Some people say that I do not like going on dates with other guys because I am insecure with my feelings for you, but that is not at all the case. My only fear is eventually caving to the pressure from those around me to settle for a guy I talk myself into feeling even a quarter of what I feel for you. Everyone pushes that I need to move on from you, yet I can not seem to shake you. You will most likely never know these feelings, as in a way you have pushed me away and shut me out. I never imagined that I would fall for you the way I have. Everything in my life has always happened a touch unconventional, but I had hoped falling in love would happen in a normal everyday way. I suppose though that this is not an ordinary everyday connection that I have developed. I often have days where I feel myself caving to the pressure of those around me and falling back into the Tinder “dating” of this generation has become so accustomed. I find myself forcing conversations and connections. I have yet to find the instant connection that I have with you. Dating has become exhausting and tedious. My friends tell me I will find someone or find that connection if I do not get back out there and try, but I have found that connection with you and I do not believe that it is possible to experience that twice in a lifetime. I also have moments of frustration with myself because I just do not have it in me to get back out there and attempt to find that connection with someone else. I honestly wonder if it is possible the way everyone says it is to fall that way again for someone different.I almost feel like if I only ever feel like this once in m life that it will be enough and I can go on knowing that my story has a different ending. This feeling I have for you runs deep through my veins. Through this experience I have learned that love is not always what you expect and dream of as a little girl, and that is by no means always a fairy tale. So as I sit and mentally prepare myself for another date that will end up in a nice to meet you and thanks for dinner, I find myself wondering if I will ever get to experience a date with you or even another walk on the beach. So until I see your name pop up on my phone with a snap chat or text I will continue to go through the everyday motions of life with a feeling of numbness. I will go home today and pick out my “date night” outfit and pretend to everyone that I am going to try and connect with this guy and that I care about the outcome, when in all reality you will be on my mind the entire night. I never imagined having such a willingness to give up everything I have wanted in my life for another person, but for you I would drop everything and run to you tomorrow. I know how cynical you can be and you have told me to “live for myself” but I am so ready to live for my life with another person. So for now I will empty my thoughts to you on this blank page on this blog, until one day I have the nerve to board that plane and knock on your door and pray you can see what I say is true. I know that day will most likely never come. For now I will go back to my work and my mediocre life and wait for word from you so I can feel extraordinary if even for a moment.