What's wrong with you people?

Submitted by Thomas (Qatar), Aug 27, 2007 at 23:20

Do people just not get out of the house anymore to meet other people? I admit I love the internet but it is not a good place to meet the love of your life for several reasons.

1. Anyone can pretend that they are whoever they feel you are looking for. They can be like a chameleon and hide behind that keyboard until you commit and then it's too late for you.

2. You spend all that time (weeks, months, even years) chatting with someone you never met and feel like you're in love. It's a fact, everyone enjoys the feeling of the chemicals being released when you fall in "love", but that's all it is, a chemical reaction. The real emotions are when the brain stops releasing the chemical and you know how you really feel. In order for that to happen you have to spend real quality, physical time with that person. And by physical I mean in their actual company !

3. I can be online chatting with 2, 3, or more people at one time telling them all what they want to hear, just waiting for one of them to be lonely enough to commit to me long enough for me to get what I want.. Be it money, sex, or enslave them in a 3rd world country.

So please think about this stuff before you do something stupid. Keep yourself busy, get a 2nd job, go to school, get a pet, clean your house, go to the gym (that's right I said it !!! GO TO THE GYM !!)\

Okay, good luck...

Thomas

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