2.22.2009

Guidelines?

Sara cooked up this crazy (but genius) conceptualization of the qualities of a girl who would be ideal for me.

Positive qualities on top, negative ones on the bottom -- relative to, of course, my point of view (from Sara's interpretation, lol!).
The colorful sphere in the middle is a kind of baseline, an amalgamation of all of these qualities in moderation.
The red line is my lower limit of the level of qualities -- "the figurative She" must possess at least such-and-such amount of each dotted category.
The blue line is my upper limit -- having more than that level of those qualities might be "too much" for me to handle, or keep/make me happy.
The zone in-between the red & blue lines would be ideal. Note the required qualities, as well as the necessary-to-avoid ones.

Do click on the image to see the full-sized version.
Sara then charted the qualities of certain girls I know, or have dated, based on her understanding. I omitted those lines for privacy reasons (my own magnanimity/nobleness) but it makes sense to see them as outliers on the chart. In particular the correlation is drawn in that what I'm supposedly looking for becomes charted as a semi-circle (red & blue lines), and past girls' lines are zigzags across the chart... Interesting.

I remember posting a silly girlfriend guideline kind of thing way-way back in high school on my website, and it broke a few hearts over several months...!
Anyway, it's a bit of harmless fun. Nothing to change the world (or my world) over. And I wouldn't want someone 100% like me.
As stated in a favorite song of mine:

"Love is like a pizza: you know what you ordered, but you never really know what you got 'til you open the box!" [Pyjama Charm, Interstellar Pizza Girl]

And as usual, Billy Joel has something applicable too:

Don't go changing / To try and please me / You never let me down before. / Ooh ooh ooh ooh / I just want someone / That I can talk to / I want you just the way you are. [Billy Joel, Just The Way You Are]

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