Atoke’s Monday Morning Banter: The Yin to Your Yang

I was filling out a form to create a profile for online dating last week and one of the questions that was asked was “what do you do to relax?” and without batting an eyelid I swiftly wrote “Watching TV”. Then it occurred to me that I might be giving off an aura of someone who’s a bum but then I couldn’t actually say “Reading encyclopedias”. That would have been downright dishonest and boring as hell so I decided to stick to the truth. And the truth it really is, because at 9PM last night, the 4th season of the best TV show that exists (on this planet! Yes!) premiered last night. Ladies and Gentlemen, Downton Abbey is THE TRUTH and I’m very glad that in those 2 hours as I stretched out on my sofa cradling my large mug, feet all nicely padded in socks I was genuinely happy.  I didn’t lie in my profile.

So how did I get to the point of  registering an online dating profile?  I’ve been incredibly bored and nothing has been happening in my life. It feels like I’ve been in a bubble and it had even begun to reflect in my writing. I live in a city where I don’t know anybody and the closest thing I have to human interaction is Skyping with K.B! I needed to do something interesting, something to plop myself out of this bubble.  I consulted with Glory since she had online dating experience and she’d written two articles on it before.{Read them here – Internet Love, To Google or Not to Google} … I was on my way to finding True Love.

How do you know when you’ve found true love? Does your heart really beat twice as fast when the object of your affection is in the room? Is it like in the movies when everything comes to a halt and there’s just two of you in the entire galaxy? Do you know it is true love when you kiss and instinctively your eyes are forced shut by some force beyond your comprehension and you find you’re perfectly well balanced standing on one leg? Or is it by one glance at a post online with a mention of his net worth and you know that if the fates just align themselves rightly…if only!

I spent this weekend with chatting someone who is positively fixated on the subject of love and other ancillary matters. Her condition is, however, very dynamic. A few weeks ago she was in love with Alex Okosi… the promise of all that wealth and she was sure that all she needed was for someone at MTV to make the introductions. Last week, she joined the list of other hopefuls online to long for Ladi Delano. We came to the conclusion that true love will find her one day and if she was lucky, the dude cupid chose to shoot will have a shed load of money at his disposal.

On a more serious note though, how do you know you have found The One. How do you know that this person… is the Yin to your Yang? It shouldn’t really matter where you met the person… Perhaps you guys locked eyes as his escalator was going down and yours was on its way up?

How did you know your person was YOUR person and if you haven’t quite found the ONE yet, how do you envision it would be? Like the movies? Is it that person that takes you to the edge of the solar system just by touching your nape? Or will you just know because there’s nobody else?

Let’s just have fun this morning. It’s the start of a beautiful week people. Let’s make it count and start on the note of LOVE!

Peace, love & cupcakes!

Toodles!

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