You're like my favorite underwear...
There haven't been any updates this week. I've just been packing. Celebrated my 25th birthday, it was low key just family and a few close friends.
So to update the blog this week, I'm making a tribute to my friend Lauren...last night Lauren came down to Alexandria (from Baltimore) to help me pack.
Last fall, newly single, I was beginning to find all of the fun bits about being single. Lauren and I emailed each other daily reminders of how amazing it is to be single. They usually included things like "I'm happy I'm single because when I can't sleep at night, I don't have to worry about waking someone else up when I'm tossing and turning or when I just get up and turn the TV on" or "I'm happy I'm single because when you decide that you want to join a roller derby league, no one is there to tell you that you'll never follow through." We both started dating a little bit and both had a string of bad dates, and trying to maintain our positive attitudes, Lauren came up with an analogy:
"I think we should look at dating as though it were a big bin full of underwear on clearance…you have to dig and rifle through lots and lots that are too big, too small, too trashy, too constricting, etc, until you find that one perfect pair that fits just right and is super sexy. All those other pairs are in the clearance bin for a reason, but that one perfect pair seems to have just slipped through the cracks."
I’ve definitely had a sampling of all of the listed types…
So last night, Lauren and I got to talking about this so called underwear analogy. What happens when you find the one who you think might fit perfectly, but you haven’t had them long enough to figure out if they fit perfectly yet? You know, sometimes how you get a perfect pair of underwear, but after wearing them for a few hours, you realize that they bunch and are rather uncomfortable? When you first start dating someone they may seem like the perfect fitting pair but how do you know that they won’t start bunching in a few hours? And how do you know if you want to make the investment on the underwear if you just don’t know how they’re going to fit later on? You can’t take worn underwear back to the store, so you either have to take the leap and deal with the consequences or chose not to buy. But which option is best?
It depends on how you feel deep down. If you feel like that pair of underwear is the perfect fit, but the color is off, or the bow on the front needs to be reattached, then you leap. If you feel like that pair just isn't for you, then you pass on the sale. Believe me when I say that when you know, you know. There will not be one doubt in your mind at all, that that is the right pair of underwear for you. There may be tiny things that need to be overlooked (the color or a quick reattachment of the bow) but you will not doubt for a second that you and that underwear are perfect for one another. So listen to your gut!
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