Wednesday 4 October 2006

C'mon, fess up all you babes :O)

I've been reading someone's blog entry about online crushes.  She describes how it feels to come across someone online who writes things so clever or insightful that they seem to be channeling your own thoughts, if only you could write so eloquently or so wittily.  The beauty of the internet crush is that on the internet, it doesn't matter what you look like —or whether you and the object of your crush is a man or a woman, cute or plain, or sitting around in baggy pajamas.  Rather, you can each judge and be judged on the merits of your mind. This, my blogger says, opens the door to intellectual flirtations freed from the confines of reality.   She finally comments that online crushes are like chocolate sauce ie you won't starve without it but it lends a sweet, enriching and intoxicating touch to online communications, and, she says, it's great fun to cultivate a few intellect-based crushes, enjoy feeling smitten from time to time, and hone your flirting skills via e-mail and blog comments.
 
Now, I'm not too big on internet flirting having some years ago been crushed by someone with a crush but I must admit that from time to time I've felt an attraction to someone whose words have struck me with joy that someone else thinks the identical way that I think only more cleverly, or more often and less intellectually, someone who's stuff is reliably both insightful and witty.
 
I wonder, does anyone feel brave enough to 'fess up to enjoying the occasional online crush?  And more - has anyone ever fessed up to the object of their crush? 
Wot happened next ???  :O))

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You're a bottling lot!