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Re: Meeting People

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From: John Fereira
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 00:00
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In article <offcon6DFzx34.171@netcom.com> offcon6@netcom.com (Marty Stuczynski) writes:
>>
>>Answer:  You don't.
>>And rejection is in your own mind.  Look at it this way....
>>
>>Suppose you meet 100 women.  Some you will like, some you won't like,
>>and some you just won't care about either way.
>>It's the same with any woman.  If she meets 100 men, she will like
>>some of them, dislike some of them, and be completely apathetic
>>to the rest.
>>So, of the women you meet that *you* like, some will like you, some
>>won't, and some won't care.
>>Starting to catch on here?
>>So if you ask out several women you are probably going to be rejected
>>by a few of them because, as cruel as it sounds, they just don't
>>like you or they just don't care about you.  Eventually, however,
>>you are going ot ask out one person who really likes you, and that
>>make all the rest worthwhile.
>>
>>Good luck!
>>
>
> Bravo! Bravo! This is exactly correct! Hate to waste bandwidth but this 
>makes so much sense that I had to acknowledge it. If only more posts were 
>as true and pertinent. This is the whole dating-romance-love-sex thing in 
>a nutshell. It's all a numbers game.
 
And the only number that counts is one.  People can complain all they
want about the ratio of men to women on the internet but all it takes
is one person that you connect with to get you into a relationship.  

-- 
John Fereira
fereira@isis.com
Isis Distributed Systems - Ithaca, NY
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From: fereira@isis.com (John Fereira)
Subject: Re: Meeting People
Date: 1995/10/06
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