I'm sure many of you have spent quite a bit of your hard earned money to gather up the family, pack a few bags, and drive on out to the big amusement park. It's kinda an American Summer tradition for several folks. I know I have made the 8-hour drive from Sonoma County to Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA on a few occasions. The thing that draws most of us to the big amusement parks are the top notch thrill rides. Big hills, corkscrews, g-force, and screaming til you lose your voice are all very appealing to us. Those rides give us a major adrenaline rush. They might even scare us or challenge our own personal boundaries. Nervous feelings, sweaty palms, and the fluttering of butterfly wings in our stomach are all common experiences when waiting in the incredibly long lines of a 2-minute marvel of human achievement.
I don't so much wonder what draws us to amusement parks and makes us spend lots of money to wait in line most of the day for a few moments of thrills. I think we've established that already. What I wonder is why do we have those same feelings or concerns for approaching a member of the opposite sex, which we don't have to pay for and ususally present themselves to us everyday, yet seldom take advantage of those opportunities? What is it that holds us back?
I used to struggle with this a few years ago. I guess when you get rejected so much it becomes an expectation. However, I just decided one day, in one of the organic aisles of a Whole Foods, that I was going to make this cute girl (who was looking kinda sad) smile. So I approached her from the side, asked her opinion on what kind of pasta I should buy, and then appointed her my "official shopping advisor." I even took a label off a jar and placed it on her chest as a makeshift badge. Not only did she smile, but she began to giggle and ended up advising me on all my grocery needs for the day. Since then, I've just approached with nothing more than the motive to make a girl smile. 9 times out of 10, they go from weathered to whimsical. To me, that beats $64.95 of waiting in line 6 hours for 30 minutes of thrills any day. Cheers!
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