I will be honest. Online dating was the very first thing on my Year of Courage list because it's scares me to death! The idea of attempting to let someone else into my life at all is terrifying! After I really started realizing that this was something that I was going to do I started to get a little bit more excited. Then scared again... Basically it's been a giant roller coaster through the whole thing.
So, this is going to be a short blog.
The movie that I ended up picking for this adventure is In the Good Old Summertime.
The reason I chose this movie was because it was just like online dating. This is the story of two young people that both have a passion of art and literature. They ask a company to help them find correspondents to write each other. They end up falling in love through their letters. By a twist of fate we learn they are working with each other at the same music shop. They don't know it yet but they will soon.
Now, if this sounds familiar with you I have your reason. In the Good Old Summertime is a sequel to another movie called The Shop Around the Conner. Both of these movies were remade in the 90s to a very popular movie called You've got Mail.
I have to say again I was very nervous about this whole thing. Alaina came over and helped me to set up my profile on Match on the first of the month. I set it up and waited to find some people. There were a few good prospects that came up, but they never replied to me. I had a few that were very odd and I never replied.
Three days after I started I get a message from a guy named *Jeff. He was a very nice and sweet guys. We had many things in common and we made a date and time to meet.
We did and it was fun, I felt very awkward because I was totally freaked out. We talked for about two hours at Starbucks. It's was fun to kind of get out and try this whole thing.
Now, before you think I got some magical movie moment let me cut you off. I did not. Jeff and I did not meet again after that and we haven't really messaged each other. I got my learning experience out of it though. I learned that I am more willing and opened to a relationship than I originally thought. Which makes me feel better because when the time comes I will be more willing to dive in.
Am I super bummed that nothing came out of it? Not really. Now, I will say what I did not like was you can't pay monthly for Match. You have to pay quarterly. So, that mean I still have the dating app for two months. However, that does not mean I am going to keep living for the site...
I have other things to live for right now.
*name was changed to protect privacy
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