Although I am moving on, my progression is moving at a turtle's pace and the moments of loneliness come in waves which are more often than not. I have mastered the art of hiding my sadness to my friends and family and am giving the impression that I am evolving and moving on. I fooled all of my friends except for one. Michel. Ball-busting Michel who is irritatingly sharp as a whip and who left me a cryptic text message telling me to check my e-mail in 5 minutes. Ok. As instructed, I checked my e-mail to find a list of website links. Meetic.com, Adopteunmec.com, metrodating.com...they were dating websites? Internet dating?!? I'm someone who got an ipod 4 years after it was launched because my discman worked just fine, my cell phone came free with my plan and frankly, it's impressive that I am able to manage a blog. I am not technologically inclined and am behind the times, this includes e-dating.
I called Michel back immediately and told him that I didn't need a dating website and that I was moving on just fine. He busted me on my lie and told me that I still vent to him and never leave the house, just to do 'weird things' like Belly Dancing. Damn, he was on to me. He urged me to at least join one, for fun. Why not?
Not wanting to join a serious site like meetic.com which could be the equivalent of eHarmony.com, I chose the kitchy Adopteunmec.com, where the men are called products and if you like 'one', you can put them in your shopping cart where they have access to message you. On top of the degrading nature of the site, the guys have to pay. Tough break guys.
It took me all of 10 minutes to join and was presented with a dosier of 100 guys at my finger tips to approve of. I flipped through the photos and gave my 'oui' or 'non'. Some of these guys were all really cute. This is where all the cute guys were hiding! I was impressed. Within hours, I had over 15 e-mails to respond to. Wow. Maybe this was going to be more fun than I had thought! If anything, this was one way I was going to brush up on my French writing skills. I responded to all of them to thank them for the message but narrowed my search down to 4 guys who interested me the most.
Will this turn into anything serious? Given my current state of mind, probably not, but it feels good to have exchange emails and 'meet' new people. Today I will enter the year 2011 and try the least organic form of dating. Maybe the it's true what they say that it always takes someone else to get over a former love...we'll see..
