Look, I get it.
Everyone is here looking for that perfect something. That connection that’s enough but not too much. That conversation that is there when you want it, but doesn’t weigh heavy while real life is busy happening. That person who is smart, funny, engaging, attractive, in your time zone, with your values, but who magically just wants to chat with a stranger on the internet.
But that’s not real life.
What IS real is that most of us live perfectly ordinary lives; not wallowing in despair, but bored by how predictable and plain that ordinary life is. We built the life we thought we were supposed to, only to find out that stability and responsibility are criminally dull.
So, what then? Do we throw that all away and become free-loving hippies or starving artists? Obviously not. We sprinkle a dash of hot sauce on our portion so that we can enjoy the family dinner. But the seasoning is there to enhance the meal, not replace it. Make the bland more palatable, as it were.
Pretentious sermonizing aside, I’m just a statistically normal dude. A suburban husband and father, EST. I have a surface-level interest in almost everything, but it’s been a long time since I’ve been really hyped about anything in particular. I’m not unhappy, just bored.
If your eyes haven’t rolled so far back in your head that you need medical intervention to restore your vision, drop me a line.