Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Looking For Girls Is Not Easy

Looking for girls is never a very easy task. Sure, sometimes they seem everywhere; they’re in bars, restaurants, clubs, and in shopping malls. They populate super markets, sidewalks, and cab stands. Unfortunately, the girls that you see in these sorts of places are usually unapproachable at best, and at worst they’re definitely not the sort of girls you’re looking for.

Sure, you could always try looking for girls on the internet, but that’s just about as scary, since it’s tough to tell if the woman who shows up on your computer screen is the same woman who’s going to show up for dinner. So what’s a guy to do?

By far, the best way to get together with a girl is to find out that the two of you share a number of common interests. You don’t necessarily have to love exactly the same things; for example, if you like mountain biking and she enjoys fly fishing, the two of you share a mutual love for the outdoors, and you can probably expose each other to different activities and interests related to the outdoors. However, if you love monster trucks and she enjoys painting her nails more than anything else in the world, it’s going to be tough to find a lot of common ground between the two of you.

The best strategy when looking for girls, therefore, is to look for groups of people who share your interests. Clubs are great for these sorts of interactions since their entire purpose is to bring together people who share a common interest. If you like reading books, get out there and find a book club. Enjoy sports and sporty girls? Join up in a community recreation softball or basketball team (co-ed, of course). Not only will these sorts of clubs allow you to meet a bunch of different girls, they open you up into completely different social networks. Before you know it, the married woman on your softball team is introducing you to her attractive sister, or you’re getting to know the friend of your shortstop’s who is really cute.

Though you may not want to date any of your current friends, if you get connected with new social networks you may not have to keep looking for girls; they’ll manage to find you on their own. Not only that, these girls will probably share more interests with you than will some random girl you meet in a bar or at the supermarket, making a relationship more probable and more fun.