Hello there and thanks for checking in on how my dating life is going on this, just the second day of 2025. Of course, not much can happen in two days so let’s call this the baseline for the year. The starting point. The “how it started” half of those picture montages.
Before we get into it, here’s a quick recap of how dating went last year…
Yep. Crickets. Well, that’s not totally true. There were some (few and far between) bright spots– a date here, a date there– but listen, if you’ve heard dating in your 20s and 30s is tough and 40s is nearly impossible, it’s all true. I can’t say everyone is suffering, surely the good-looking people are probably having a grand ol’ time because well, they’re good-looking. They can “slide into the DMs” and it’s flattering whereas us regular people do the same thing and it’s “creepy.”
We can’t all be Ryan Gosling, I guess.
At the tail end of 2024 a potential date popped up. I kept my excitement to a minimum but I was secretly pretty happy about it– looking forward to finishing the year with a sizzle but unfortunately, it fizzled. It turns out that a date cancelling the night before really does suck. I’ve been pretending for about two weeks that everything is fine after the abrupt cancellation but the truth is that it’s still affecting my mood. It’s like I was in a desert and saw a spring of water but when I got there, it was just a mirage.
I’m more on the hopeless side of being a hopeless romantic but I’ll cling to the part of 2024 worth remembering: Something can pop up so fast. I’ll also commit to put myself out there more. That whole miss 100% of the shots you don’t take thing. But seriously, I’m fine.
-Out of the Wilderness
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