Hollywood Misconceptions About Sitting Alone

Despite all my best efforts, I still find myself being bored and lonely. What options does that leave me, sit and drink alone at the bar or sit alone in the park? Either way I end up not talking to anybody. So how to I fight boredom and still look approachable sitting by myself?

Perhaps Hollywood has left us all disillusioned into thinking a beautiful stranger will come up and ask you what book you are reading or some other random question that leads to a romantic encounter. That grand cliche of sitting alone in the park on a sunny day and a beautiful woman that would normally never talk to you seems to be very interested.

This isn't at all about me wanting to meet that special person or having a romantic fling. In all actuality if that ever happened in real life, you would not have the cut scene that goes from giggling in the park to tearing each others clothes off in the elevator. Maybe that does happen in real life, just not to me or anybody else I know. Maybe I am not living in the right town, drive the right car, or wear the right clothes.

I am not bashing creative freedoms given to everyday situations. If TV and movies were more like real life, they would not be very interesting. My major problem is that even the biggest losers in the story have a onetime romantic endeavor, but does not happen to me even when I try. This is not me trying to say that I want to go to the bar and just hook up with a random girl, I would much rather form a solid relationship.

This leads me back to my original point of how to be alone and still approachable. There are no intentions for me to become the guy sitting at the bar drinking a whiskey on the rocks and sending drinks over to a table of young ladies. That feels too much like bribery, and I would like to find somebody that looks for something more in a person. Is it more about the location than any other variable?

I am a good guy, scratch that, I am a great guy. But it is always the most egotistical, womanizing jackass that gets the girl. No matter how lonely or bored I am, I will not sink to that level. For a woman to pass me by because I am nice or not wearing the right clothes (or any other superficial characteristic) is her loss.

Thank you Hollywood for once more making me feel like there is something tragically wrong with me. The struggle between reality and fantasy will continue as long as Hollywood maintains its stronghold over my entertainment.

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