Let's go on a Date

What’s the hardest part of going on a date? Getting asked out in the first place. Personally, I can say that I had been on 4 legitimate dates from ages 17 to 21 and that was not annually, there was like a three year dry spell in between, but when you’re a Nun, you have to count what you can get.

It has always baffled my mind how some girls have an endless line of suitors taking a number just to sit next to them on a couch. What is it about them? They may not be the prettiest girl in the world, but somehow, they either know how to pluck the male or they possess an aura. There must be some secret fountain of endless dating that these girls drink from that allows them to get this glowing aura. This aura is so powerful that it blinds guys from getting out of their comfort zone to ask out a Nun which leaves Nuns dateless on the weekends.

So, we have to resort to other means to get some dating experience. Last Sunday, in my ward, we had the dreaded fifth Sunday Priesthood/Relief Society marriage talk. I usually like to blank out on these discussions, but I did happen to take away from it a valuable quote: “You aren’t going to get asked out on dates if you don’t get out of your comfort zone and sit around on your couch waiting for someone to ask you out.”

This statement was like an epiphany for me because in all truthfulness, I do enjoy sitting on my couch and before the age of 21, that is all that I did. Every time that I was on that couch on a Friday night watching a Disney Channel original movie where 13 year olds were finding love, I would say “why doesn’t anyone ever ask me out? Why doesn’t Troy ever sing to me like he does to Gabriella?” I guess you have to get up and stop being so comfortable in order to find a guy friend with the values you desire in a bf and this will help in the dating department.

I think that you don’t have to be the social butterfly of the group and it may not have immediate results right away, but your ability to be yourself in a social setting will help. So don’t lose hope. One day you and a boy will click, and it will be beautiful.

<3 The Nunnery

You might be a nun if

1. Instead of having a face-to-face conversation with a boy, you’d rather have one over fb chat

2. You create elaborate schemes to get him to acknowledge your existence. Such schemes would include: creating an IM account to talk to him as a mystery girl (shout out to my middle school days), conveniently showing up at a place that he frequents, making him a homemade valentine with an encrypted message that means I love you

3. You decide not to dress grungy on the days of the week that you know you will somehow see him, but every other day you like a hot mess.

4. You have only been on a handful of dates in your life with boys you didn’t really even like, know, or been set-up with.

5. You’ve never had a real bf and you’re pushing 23

6. You’ve never been kissed and you’re pushing 23

7. The thought of a relationship excites you and terrifies you at the same time

8. You have flirted all your life, but no one’s ever feelin’ it. They move away from you when you come up to them; they avoid because you’ve become a creeper

9. You have already made a plan to move to a big city and live up the single life at 30 because you think you won’t get married (not true!).

10. You have more crushes on celebrities than on actual people.

<3 The Nunnery