So, I've been cruising the personal posts on Craig's List lately. While the "Rants & Raves" sections is often entertaining, I find the "Missed Connections" & "W4M" posts very interesting. Both of these sections appear to be very telling, in a general sense, about how very lonely -- &, perhaps, out of touch -- humans have become.
Granted, no one wants to wake up to some hideous, grotesque sight each morning, but the majority of posts in the W4M include statements like: hwp, goal oriented, no baggage, not just employed, but has a good job, handsome, has a sense of humour & so much more.
It really amazes me. We humans think we know -- if we have any clue at all -- what we want. But just as the rules change with each woman, or partner, with whom we intimately involve ourselves, human desires change constantly. It's as if, as we evolve (per se), we become continually more schizoid.
Why must we have a need of intimacy -- or even a sex drive? Each, if we have any expectation whatsoever, leads only to disappointment. There is no one who looks just so, who possess all the qualities we want or need. But we think we'll hold out for these things.
Am I so much better because I've made some of these realizations? Am I better because I'd given up on the concept of "dating" years ago? Or am I any better because, as I get older, I'm beginning to see the futility of any sense of emotional or sexual fulfillment? I doubt it. I still have my desires, my preferences, my longings, my sex drive.
I think I give up.
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