Batter Up!

Aww, being young and single… take it from me, being young and single is not all it is cracked up to be. It actually makes my brains hurt! I have been hearing A LOT about the “game” lately and have been informed that I am not playing it correctly. I have learned that if there is one thing guys are good at, it is using their “manly sports analogy” to explain dating to us women folk. Surprisingly, I have learned that I am equally skilled at this and can stump them in their own game. I am quite proud of that fact. All guys do this, the way my father put it to me a while back, “You don’t need to switch teams, you just need to stop being a benchwarmer for the team you are on” Thanks dad! Fabulous advice! So, that is what I am going to do. In a conversation on Sunday with a cousin of mine, who will remain nameless, we were talking about how guys don’t always realize that they found a good catch. They are too stupid to see that they caught the ball and can then take themselves out of the game, so they drop the ball and keep playing. (I personally think they need some coaching). I was then informed that there are different kinds of catches, all good catches but maybe not the one that a guy is hoping for, like fish in the sea… all pretty colors but guys have different tastes. So then our little “sport analogy” went to a “fishing analogy” to which I replied… Why are some guys stupid enough to “catch and release” a great girl? Then they are just left on the side of the river hoping for someone else to bite when they already had a great one that took the bait! He said that, “Some guys like rainbow fish… some like trout, some like gold fish, so if a guy catches a great clown fish it is a great fish but he lets it go hoping for a rainbow fish.” My only rebuttal to that was this, "how does a guy know that he doesn’t like clown fish if he never gives the clown fish a chance?” Well, I won the argument cause there was no come back to that one! I may be the clown fish but some guys are just dumb “basses”! ;) That is my question now though…. What makes a person decide they can’t be with a person if they never gave that person a fair chance?!? We have all done it guys and girls! We are so caught up in what we “think” we are looking for that we don’t give the ones we have a chance. I know I am guilty of this and that is something I need to be aware of. But after this discussion, I have come to a conclusion, I decided that not only am I going to get in the game, I am going to be “MVP” of the game!! I don’t know how well it will work for me but sitting on the “sidelines” hasn’t gotten me too far either… haha so, wish me luck cause I am up to bat!