Today at lunch I discovered that according to the definition decided upon at lunch today (by friends who don't know something about me), I am socially inept. As decided, someone who has reached the age of 25 (which I passed a while back) and yet has not kissed or been kissed by someone unrelated to them in a romantic kind of way, is socially inept.
I happen to fall into that category.
It is not something I revel in, in fact sometimes it really bothers me that I have never been in a serious relationship. But there it is. I've never really dated and definitely never dated anyone I wanted to kiss. It was always something that just never happened for me.
But socially inept? I know that I stick my foot in my mouth with alarming regularity and I know that I FEEL socially inept sometimes, but I didn't know that the measurement of social ineptitude was measured in lip strength.
I didn't speak up and say anything because that itself seemed socially inept and also because it's no one's business unless I choose to share it. (Ironically, I am now sharing it with the internet...) But it made me think.
7 comments:
well, you're obviously more socially adept than I am because I would have opened my big mouth to tell that woman a few things about what is socially acceptable conversation and what is not.
I kisssed someone LOOONG before I should have and it was a stupid thing to do and I don't think it had anything to do with social adeptness at all, in fact quite the contrary! :)
I wouldn't call that inept...it's really kinda smart, in a way. Why exchange bodily fluids until you're ready? Hey, BTW, I'm giving away an actual PRIZE for Sx3 today...come play along!
they obviously don't know you, because that's not a word I would ever use to describe you. I love you bunches C!
Okay, so this is a really impersonal response to an incredibly personal entry, but I just want to say this is a beautiful entry. I find these sentences especially profound and moving and full of punch and yelp:
I didn't know that the measurement of social ineptitude was measured in lip strength. I didn't speak up and say anything because that itself seemed socially inept and also because it's no one's business unless I choose to share it. (Ironically, I am now sharing it with the internet...) But it made me think.
socially inept? two words...sexy stevie
Well then, I'll have to join you in the "socially inept" crowd...though I bet there aren't too many of us left!
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