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Originally Posted by Blarobbarg
Plus, my lifestyle isn't exactly normal for a 21 year old middle class American male. I live in Nicaragua for heaven's sake. And my favorite activities include eating at ethnic restaurants (or food trucks... or sketchy groceries), drinking copious amounts of exotic coffee, jamming for hours on end, reading by myself, and shopping at record stores and thrift stores. I go to the movies once or twice a year at the most, I don't drink, and I tend to not like huge parties. I feel like I need to move to somewhere with more hipsters like Portland or Seattle or something, I tend to get along better with the "freaks" than anyone else in my hometown. Maybe then I would finally find a girl who is weird enough to like me and share a few of my interests (who doesn't turn out to be horrible).
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Are you sure you're not me? LOL! Although I go to the movies a lot, I drink (but I don't go crazy and sometimes go for long periods without it), and I'm simply uncomfortable at huge parties. I often wondered how someone could ever love me with all my idiosyncrasies and interests. But then I concluded that if they love me, then they can accept those things. There's no such thing as "normal", really. I'm a little strange, and my boyfriend is equally as strange in his own way. Some of that could be due to him being from another country - different cultural norms and such that might be weird to me but not to him.
One of my biggest idiosyncrasies (if you want to call it that), is that I don't like the feeling of being touched. I really like my personal space, and I was happy to meet someone who respected that and who waited until I got to know him better before going forward.
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Originally Posted by Blarobbarg
Joining a club, maybe, when I get back to the States. Not really anything like that for me here in Nicaragua. As far as flirting with random girls in coffee places, I am beyond uncomfortable flirting with strangers. Plus, I've never decided I "liked" someone just by seeing them. I'm not against it... but it's definitely way out of my comfort zone. And again, that would be something to do in the States, not here. They honestly only have a handful of coffee shops here, and I live in Managua, the capital. It's kind of like the 20th century here, they don't have too many of the things we take for granted in the majority of the western world. All that aside, I appreciate the suggestions.  |
I know the feeling. I really do. But one time I tried it and it worked wonders, setting everything in motion. Worked wonders for my parents too