It fascinates me and has me contemplating as to what makes one person fall in love with someone and not another? Especially when I believe there's more than one person out there for each of us. How can you decide to dedicate and love just one person for the rest of your life? And how difficult it is to find that one person you love, and then to have them love you back. Do all the stars have to be aligned? ...nowadays I feel like that's the case.
...I know the answers to these contemplations, but it still makes me wonder.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Laws of Attraction
When talking with friends about what attracts you to the opposite sex, smile/eyes/personality or in my case, teeth and shoes, are some of the first elements you tend to hear of. Whatever the case may be, we all have those particular things that turn us on...or off. Let me just tell you about an experience I had a few weeks back.
I was, like most nights, watching sports. This night in particular I was watching Game 6 of the 2009 World Series starring the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies. It was a great time, the Yankees won. Fast forward...post-game interviews.
Example #1: Alex Rodriquez. I have an admiration for him; he's an amazing athlete (minus of course the little steroid incident), has a great body, nice light blue eyes and dark skin. Can't go wrong with that, right?! WRONG. Interviewer asks a question and Alex begins speaking; what...a...shock. After the first sentence, I was so completely turned off. His voice, ugh! Such a bummer.
Example #2: Andy Pettitte. Great pitcher. That's all I can really say, I never really cared for him. I guess he has a nice body, his face is alright, don't really remember his eye color, but I do remember he has dark hair and he's tall. So yeah, not attracted to him. WRONG, again. His voice...now I'm attracted ten fold. He's from Texas and has a rugged manly accent that would make any girl melt. I am now completely hooked.
So here I am dumbfounded as I listen to these baseball players talk, and my attraction of each and every player has changed just because I heard them speak. Why is that? Could it really change the whole way you think of a potential partner? Why, after all season, thinking A-Rod was good looking enough, that now I am repulsed? Even though I know this to be true, it's so bizarre to me. Can you look past the lack of voice attraction or is it too major of an attribute to compromise on? ...I don't know the answer to this one.
I watched a TV show once about the laws of attraction and what makes men attracted to women and women attracted to men, and voice was one of the key elements. I had never thought about that, and up until I watched that show, did it occur to me that yes, voice is crucial and does have a huge impact on whether you're attracted to someone or not. Men like the higher pitched feminine voice, while women, more times than not, prefer a deep manly voice. Makes sense. (I wonder who's more compromising in this sector? Will women overlook the higher-toned voice of a man, moreso than mens forgiveness for a female with a lower, deeper voice?)
...I just hope I don't have an unattractive octave. How do you really know?
As a little caveat. This is yet another reason text messaging is a bad idea. How bad would it be if you began this great text relationship (cause you got a number from a friend) and then go on your first date with out ever speaking and BAM, not an attractive voice. But you're stuck. Do you just cringe when he/she calls, and then suggest that perhaps they never ever call again and that the two of you should just be text buddies?
I was, like most nights, watching sports. This night in particular I was watching Game 6 of the 2009 World Series starring the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies. It was a great time, the Yankees won. Fast forward...post-game interviews.
Example #1: Alex Rodriquez. I have an admiration for him; he's an amazing athlete (minus of course the little steroid incident), has a great body, nice light blue eyes and dark skin. Can't go wrong with that, right?! WRONG. Interviewer asks a question and Alex begins speaking; what...a...shock. After the first sentence, I was so completely turned off. His voice, ugh! Such a bummer.
Example #2: Andy Pettitte. Great pitcher. That's all I can really say, I never really cared for him. I guess he has a nice body, his face is alright, don't really remember his eye color, but I do remember he has dark hair and he's tall. So yeah, not attracted to him. WRONG, again. His voice...now I'm attracted ten fold. He's from Texas and has a rugged manly accent that would make any girl melt. I am now completely hooked.
So here I am dumbfounded as I listen to these baseball players talk, and my attraction of each and every player has changed just because I heard them speak. Why is that? Could it really change the whole way you think of a potential partner? Why, after all season, thinking A-Rod was good looking enough, that now I am repulsed? Even though I know this to be true, it's so bizarre to me. Can you look past the lack of voice attraction or is it too major of an attribute to compromise on? ...I don't know the answer to this one.
I watched a TV show once about the laws of attraction and what makes men attracted to women and women attracted to men, and voice was one of the key elements. I had never thought about that, and up until I watched that show, did it occur to me that yes, voice is crucial and does have a huge impact on whether you're attracted to someone or not. Men like the higher pitched feminine voice, while women, more times than not, prefer a deep manly voice. Makes sense. (I wonder who's more compromising in this sector? Will women overlook the higher-toned voice of a man, moreso than mens forgiveness for a female with a lower, deeper voice?)
...I just hope I don't have an unattractive octave. How do you really know?
As a little caveat. This is yet another reason text messaging is a bad idea. How bad would it be if you began this great text relationship (cause you got a number from a friend) and then go on your first date with out ever speaking and BAM, not an attractive voice. But you're stuck. Do you just cringe when he/she calls, and then suggest that perhaps they never ever call again and that the two of you should just be text buddies?
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