Arnavaz Fatemi / Roundup
How do we all do it? Many of us go to school full-time, have jobs and try to find time to study and enjoy some evenings with friends. Even with all that on our plates, we try to find relationships.
We play this game–something I’m very familiar with–called “The Dating Game.” It’s not as easy as the cheesy ‘70s show, although I find myself constantly wishing it was.
The real life dating game is more like the old game I used to play on the playground of my elementary school, 4-corners. There’s always someone who is in the middle trying to take your spot that you’ve become very comfortable with. You have partners on the different corners, you and these other players have an understanding of each other and for the most part want to help each other, until at one point you’re running full-speed to switch spots with a partner and before you know it, everyone is pointing and laughing at you and you’re now in the middle desperate to get back in the game.
Come to think of it, no one ever won in that game. It was just an ongoing, cruel cycle of deception. Maybe they were they trying to teach us something from this game.
Well, here’s my plan. I am a 19-year-old lady (I’m too old to be a girl and I’m not ready to be a woman, so I call myself a lady) and by next summer I want to find an all-around nice, SANE, goal oriented gentleman. I may want to date him, I may not. I just want to find one that lives in the county of Los Angeles , because at this point of my life, I’m convinced there’s none of those here.
Once a week I will write a new column, about who I met that week, what I went through and what made me decide not to drive my car straight into the ocean.
I give it a year, for the people in this city to prove to me that Los Angeles isn’t just a sunny place for shady people.
Arnavaz ‘Rosie’ Fatemi ()
