Little known facts about me:
- I’m not an ageist. I’ve dated 18-37, and I’ve found that some people can pack in knowledge and experience in a short time, and some people can live a long time and still be clueless as to what really matters. So age is not as important as the choices that people have made for themselves during their lifetime, no matter how long that lifetime may have been.
- I go out of my way to make people feel comfortable. On one of my dates, as an example, the girl I was with decided to walk down the boardwalk of a beach without shoes and later complained of her feet hurting. I stopped, without even thinking about it, and took off my sandals, manually put them on her feet, and insisted that she wear them. I don’t do things like that to impress, but because I just naturally want people to feel as comfortable as they possibly can due to how I was raised. I once heard a line in one of my favorite movies about manners (Blast from the Past), which stated, “Manners are not things meant to make one person feel superior to another, but are done to make whomever that person is around feel as comfortable as possible.” Although I sometimes falter, that’s how I have always tried to live my life.
- I am constantly engaged in the beauty of everything around me. From the natural scenery to the artificial, from a historic building to a beautiful person, from a bird flying overhead to a vividly colorful flower budding for the first time during Springtime, if it’s beautiful in some way to me, I’m probably going to be admiring it.
- I’m like the anti-jock. With big feet and small ankles, I’m a bit klutzy sometimes, so expecting me to be overly athletic is asking a lot. Yet, for some strange reason I’m really good at tennis. It’s a good thing I’m not a drinker, though, because I can only imagine what would happen if I had to do the line test when my sense of balance was off.
- Once I’m comfortable around someone, I try to throw a little humor into just about everything, including moments where trying to make someone laugh is probably the wrong time to do so. Saying something funny during intimate moments probably isn’t the brightest idea, huh?
- I’m a research junkie and have a wide variety of interests. Some of my many interests include art, architecture, vintage items, nutrition, exercise, bicycling, movies, tennis, ping pong, history, astronomy, human relations, traveling, botanical gardens, museums, watching the waves roll in at the beach, bowling, 70s-80s music, vintage car shows, the performing arts (Plays, mainly), photography, bookstores and libraries, board games, croquet, badminton, gemology, genealogy, aquaculture, the occasional video game, philosophical discussions, and cooking.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, so if you want to know more, all you have to do is ask!
