Online to Reality?

Ok so after posting I realized that there has to be some updates about me and I would rather look at the relationship side. I am one of those people that once upon a time I hated hanging out by myself. I always love hanging out in groups and doing things with others. In college for the most part, I had my bf at that time and our friends which guaranteed that I would always have someone around and if not then I would have uncomfortable weekends where I had nothing to do and no motivation. This changed with the hectic life of my final semesters where people graduated, I was single and had a huge class load. I found the simple joys in taking a walk browsing in stores and more.

Moving to the east coast was an interesting change. Over a period of months I found a groove and was happy to do this as a single girl and to learn what I wanted on my own and of course it hit me one day that I was ready to find Mr Right. In a city this large how hard could it be?

Little did I know that there should be a Guy Guide for finding a match in this city! It is so hard to meet people unless you have some friends or go through work and I found that this made me keep meeting the same types of people. This was really becoming frustrating. Typically I am the type that goes from one relationship to the next so I never have the benefit of a breather to see what it is that I truly want. Now that I was ready I kept finding people that I knew would not be of interest to me in the longterm.

Finally I decided that if you want something new you have to do something innovative. Debating the issue of using the Internet was a tough one. One would think that a 24 year old girl should not have a problem with this we are the Techie generation; however, I could not get the idea in my head that this was the path I was prepared to take until I realized that you find people at bars and people actually expect that to work so how could the Internet be that bad. So I turned to one of my favorite sites - Craigslist and sent out a request for good conversation at a coffeeshop - long story short I met a great guy! It didn't take long and we started dating.

The funny thing is as recently as yesterday my bf and I were on our way to a party. In the subway we bumped into one of his colleagues and we started talking - speaking of random this is another way that I'm sure people have met. Anyway, she asked the inevitable question "How'd you meet?" As he blushed I said on the Internet through Craigslist! Seeing that I was one of the biggest oponents to online dating, I can admit when I'm wrong and find it my personal mission to showcase my success story (I'd like to think). She was very intrigued and talked about on of her friends who had done the same thing and the way she explained it was analagous to someone describing the concept of TV to a room of people that had enjoyed their favorite soap operas on radio. It seemed so foreign. With all the sites online with matchmaking, hookups and more this is definately something of a mainstay.

How funny that people shy away from the idea.
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Kimmie
Founder Sikara Magazine & Sikara Designs
http://www.sikara.com