Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Dating has changed with the times, and I think that many will agree. Gone are the days where couples will sit in the streets sharing a bowl of noodles, or ride on bicycles meant for one. Dating today is a movie at the cinema, a walk in the park, dinner at a fancy eatery, but most importantly dating today involves cash. As the famous saying goes, in a world that is always changing, the only thing that doesn't change is change. And whilst that may be true for most instances, there will be many who will argue that that is indeed not true. Though dating has changed with the times, with improvement in technologies, and communication, some things in dating will never change.
Such as, its usually the guys who make the first move. Though women fight for equal rights in the workplace, and the alpha females will always insist that girls are not as weak as the world makes them out to be, when it comes to the dating scene, girls will always want to be the passive one, at least initially. Now what is to come next might offend some, so my advice is to take it with a pinch of salt, and to realise that it represents only one opinion out of the many in this world.
Personally I find the concept of a guy dating an older girl to be seriously skewed. I had a good discussion in which many arguments were put forth, and to recount it all now will prove too difficult...because I'm lazy, but the strongest of all these was that guys in general mature at a slower rate than girls. By this I refer to aspects such as spiritual growth, emotional growth, mental perhaps, and so when older guys date younger girls, it is hoped, and usually true, that they are at least on par in these areas, or there abouts. However, if the situation were reversed the gap would be even bigger. This gap could prove to be what causes the relationship to fall apart, because these are areas where strong, long lasting relationships are built on.
The argument put forth above is a simplified version and is in no way complete, or representative of the discussion I had.
Dan
11:19 pm
