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- From: mel@niblick.ecn.purdue.edu (Meloney D Cregor)
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- Subject: Priorities
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.230843.14635@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:08:43 GMT
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- In article <C1GIDB.8pp@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
-
- >But... if the right person comes along when a relationship isn't high
- >on one's list of priorities, one might miss them entirely.
-
- ONe might, but then again, one might not.
-
- There is a difference between 'not having a relationship' as a high
- priority and 'not currently looking real hard to find a relationship'
- as a high priority.
-
- I fall in the latter category. I am not allocating a great deal, well
- actually very little, time towards having a romantic relationship
- with anyone.
-
- I do this for several reasons; one is that I greatly enjoy living
- by myself ( I would say alone, but the furries would take offense at
- not being considered perkind and beings unto themselves with personalities
- and whatnot). Another is that I have shades of Edism and I am beginning
- to suspect that I am fairly incompatible with a majority of people. ONce you
- eliminate half the population on gender preference (mine), there are those
- that don't match on an intelluctual basis, a humor basis and the fact
- that I would be considered unattractive by a great number of men. Now,
- once you establish this subset, there is the matter of what *I* find
- attractive and compatible.
-
- I guess I haven't adopted Marvin's philosohy of "It'll NEVER happen",
- but that it is unlikely, so in the mean time, I get on with my life
- and do those things which I find enjoyable and those things that make
- me content (Ok, Ed, I might not be 'happy' with the situation, but I
- am content with it and I am content to be content).
-
- Now, were I to find this elusive other half of this mythical
- relationship, my priorities would change. However, I refuse to
- buy into the hogwash that if I am not mated, my life has no meaning.
-