Every hour, millions of optimistic singles anxiously await answers to some of life’s most pressing and curious online questions:
- Who has messaged me?
- Who sent me a ‘wink’?
- Am I someone’s favorite?
Answers to these and other gripping questions can, of course, only be revealed if you’ve already taken the audacious action of creating your own ONLINE DATING PROFILE. As a fairly recent widow, I’ve of late given to much thought on the whole idea of going online and fanning one’s own ‘flame’, so to speak. It appears to be a pretty brave and complex process, a bit like application for employment with the added bonus (or burden) of baring your soul to the world and adding a few well-chosen pictures to show off your best ‘sides’.
Questions like ‘what is your hair color’ can be humbling if say, you have no hair! Others like ‘how would you best describe the type of person you are looking for’ or ‘how would you describe yourself’ are not to be taken lightly (although I have to believe that some have been). Questions from online admirers such as, ‘Where have you been all my life’ really make no sense to someone who has actually been married to someone else during that ‘other person’s whole life.’
Whether humbling, heartfelt or hysterical, all this deep and personal introspection can be downright troubling if you are not the ‘no brag, just fact’ type. I suppose at some point those who choose to pursue this experience just have to know that they are putting their often thin-skinned selves out there to a cyber-world of strangers, just gird up their loins and take that flight of faith (and possibly some creative license).
I am by no means putting the process down but rather saying ‘hats (or shields) off’ to all of you! It takes sheer unadulterated courage to paint your own pretty (and hopefully honest) picture and then push the send button. In fact, I send my very best wishes for your prolific and prompt popularity.
In the meantime, this whole compelling process has got me to thinking… what if Eve had needed to create an online profile to meet Adam? What would be her definition of the perfect companion, her special interests, her favorite past time? Could she even relate? Would she have found this all very entertaining or intimidating?
In fumbling through some funny ‘online’ stories, I found a short piece on just this subject. I thought it would be fun to share what Eve’s online profile might have looked like, according to Readers Digest and a little bit of my own ‘creative license’!
EVE/ b.c.
Sex? Female – from Adam’s rib!
Age? Created about 15 minutes ago but don’t look a second over 10 minutes old!
Faith? Yes!
Where were you born? Over near some ferns!
Height? A tall vine!
Weight? A bunch of sticks!
Eye Color? Will have to ask Adam!
Hair color? Will have to ask Adam!
Personality? Easily tempted!
Body type? Not Adam’s – ‘figuratively’ speaking!
Do you smoke? Fire smokes!
Do you drink? Yes, water from streams, lakes!
Children? Looking forward to around 56!
Favorite leisure time activity? Leisure? Refer to previous answer!
Interests? Gardening, bird-watching!
Favorite music? Birds!
Favorite entertainment? Watching lambs play with children!
Favorite food? Fruit.
Favorite hot spots? Sun!
Income Level? Handful of ‘beautiful’ sticks!
What are you looking for in a man? Adam!
Most influential people in your life? God and Adam!
Of course Eve was assured of Adam companionship for upwards of a healthy 900 years. That being so, she probably would never have had (or wanted) to think about finding another. But in truth, if she would have had to, it surely would have been a simpler process. So, maybe this doesn’t need to be as frightening or complicated as it really appears! We can sure muddy up our lives with too many details and unrealistic on and off-line expectations and never be bold enough to discover that it is in meeting each other face to face, that we truly ‘see each other’ with all our unique virtue’s and flaws!
So I say be brave, be bold! Get out there and discover if there is really more happiness ahead for you! If God truly meant us to have JOY, then we ought to know that the best form of that, His best gift to us, is to love and be loved.
Here’s hoping that all of you, dear online daters, have the opportunity to meet and really ‘see eye-to-eye’, as did Adam and Eve with each other, your whole wonderful self through another’s eyes – and discover the extraordinary in someone else!
Merry Messaging!