FIRST JOURNAL TOPIC STOLEN FROM PINTEREST: FIVE WAYS TO WIN YOUR HEART
Wow. What an interesting place to start.
Five ways to win my heart? Can I just take a moment to laugh over this? Maybe I'm a little cynical about love lately, mostly for the fact that I just keep picking the wrong guy over and over and over again. Mind you when I say, "the wrong guy" I'm not talking about one specific guy, but rather, a string of guys with bad traits that had no interest in me whatsoever. I didn't date any of these boys, I just crushed on them from afar (actually not even afar, I was friends with all of them, which may be more pathetic).
First Choice: Childhood friend that only wanted to spend time with me outside of school in the privacy of our own homes and acted like I didn't exist six hours a day, five days a week. We're not even friends anymore, we never talk.
Second Choice: Fairly decent guy (or so I thought). Athletic. We got along pretty well. We'd talk in class and joke around. Told a backstabbing conniving witch who was supposed to be my best friend that I liked him. She told one of his best friends who told him and that dissolved the friendship. He got made fun of because I liked him, and it was all because I'm not skinny.
Third Choice: First guy to ever pay attention to me outside of the "hey can I borrow your pencil. Did you see that sick play Sid made last night?" I think I only liked him because of the attention, and the attention was minimal at best. He turned out to be a felon, so there's no love lost there, but I wish I wouldn't have wasted a year and a half liking him, getting emotionally invested and putting up with his crap.
Fourth Choice: A really nice, sweet, shy kid. Also athletic. He was funny and polite and held doors for me. Because we were both painfully shy we never talked about anything other than hockey and the weather. I never even got to spend any real time with him, he moved away and we didn't keep in touch.
Fifth Choice: In the beginning he was the kind of guy I always thought I was going to end up with. He loved sports and played sports, he was taller than I am, he was cute, smart, funny, and a gentleman. Somehow we started talking and spending time together, which turned into a regular thing that included getting lunch, shooting hoops, walking around the mall and talking about everything under the sun. He loved music (especially country), he played guitar, he loved dogs. We texted and snapchatted constantly for almost two months and I was delusional enough to think that meant something. Then I found out he liked another girl. Fair enough, as you can see, I'm used to being second best and I figured we could still be friends. I even gave him relationship advice and listened to him talk about her. That's what friends do. In the end, it didn't matter. He didn't make a move on her, though it was painfully obvious that she liked him. She even told him that everyone thought they were dating and she wouldn't mind if they were. I guess I shouldn't be too sad about this one not working out either. He drinks more than the average twentysomething boy should, he's kind of childish, he can't make a decision to save his life, and he said he's never going to ask a girl out again, they'll have to come to him. Plus he's taken on a whole new jerk persona that is reminiscent of the men of Jersey Shore. When someone says they'll always be there, just a phone call or text away.... Don't believe them.
So clearly I make bad choices. But funny enough, while these guys looked nothing alike, (The first was short and Italian, the second was an average height white boy with earrings, the third was short and pudgy, the fourth was medium height with a big beard, and the fifth was extremely tall, skinny, and had dirty blonde hair) they shared some similar traits... and those are probably the things that win my heart... so here we go:
5 WAYS TO WIN MY HEART:
1.) Be funny. Seriously, be witty and sarcastic and make me laugh.
2.) Like sports or play sports. I love hockey. My track record of the five so far were 3 hockey players and 2 baseball players (and I don't even like baseball, but baseball pants are God's gift to women).
3.) Like good music, or play a musical instrument. Share your favorite songs with me. Be one of those people that has to have the radio (or better yet, your iPod or a CD) on in the car.
4.) Must Love Dogs. Yeah, that's a movie title, and I've never seen the movie. But seriously, a guy with a soft spot for dogs is someone I will have a soft spot for.
5.) Just be kind. Be a gentleman. Do small things, whether it's holding a door open, or letting a woman pass through the doorway in front of you, or walk on the street side of the sidewalk. I couldn't even stress this enough. Sometimes it's the smallest things a man does that can win a woman's heart.
So that's it... I think they're pretty simple things, and that's probably why I get myself into so much trouble, falling for the wrong guy over and over again.
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