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I remember years ago a girl who was virtually auditioning me for a date looked my work up online & said, "I don't think you're right for me. You seem like someone who likes animals more than people." Bothered me a bit at the time. But now? Yep. Correct. And I'm very ok with that.
But just because you like animals more than people, it doesn't mean you have lost your belief that people have the capacity to be amazing and wonderful and lovely, at times.
If you're going to think I'm weird and wrong for wanting to say hello to a sheep on a country walk, you're not the right person for me.
Odd, looking back at that now: I felt, from the way it was put, like I was being told I was an antisocial being, lurking on the shadow margins of the civilised world. Now I just think, "Well, yeah. Of course I fucking do. Doesn't any rational person who has considered the facts?"
This is also part of why I don't want to do online dating now. I want to talk to someone in person, as me, not be "virtually auditioned" and/or have them skim across my social media then take an idea in their head about who I am & run with it in a careening, flappy-armed way.
Lost a lot of followers as a result of this thread, which is, when I consider precisely what that tells me about them, an event to be celebrated.
