Searching for More

With each passing day I am becoming more and more disenchanted with women.  Not so much with any female in my life, but rather women on a whole.  This of course doesn't mean that I'm going to stop pursuing, charming, and wining and dining them, but I think I'll do it more cautiously from now on.  There is so much self-obsession and overconfidence that to be frank I find it a bit sickening.  This rather stunning revelation occurred oddly enough when I recently went to the beach.  Not far from me were a pair of bikini clad girls around my age a tad too involved with themselves.  I was close enough to make out the general flow of their conversation which revolved around the belly button rings that they were both proudly sporting.  Now to be clear most males are decidedly unconcerned with the state of anyone's belly button ring.  Apart from being a bit too flashy and perhaps slightly slutty, they offer absolutely no redeeming value.  However, these teenagers were quite concerned with their respective piercings.  They were strangely fiddling with them and discussing in great detail the ring's effect on the skin around the belly button region.  They were completely engrossed in their conversation that it was as if life around them had stopped entirely.  To them life had whittled itself down to the two of them and their belly button rings.

Now please, don't take this post the wrong way.  Men are equally guilty of such vapidity.  In my mind the biggest crime is that men don't push for more.  In general, males are so infatuated with sexiness and beauty that things that can truly define a woman like intelligence, charm, and wit are completely overlooked.  Instead women merely focus on giving men what we seem to want: sex.  Of course, at times there is nothing better than hot, heavy, and unabashed sex.  However, most people fail to realize that there can be so much more.  Men fail to force the best out of the women they date.  Instead of experiencing excitement and romance in all facets of life, we are too often left to settle into a dreary and often unending rhythm.  All I'm saying is push your girl to be everything she is capable of, and in doing so raise your own expectations.  Don't settle when there is so much unlocked potential.