First off…HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 🎉🍾🥂

Ok, lets get into this. So, I’m watching a season of MAFS (Married At First Sight) and this show is very interesting to me. For those who may have never heard of the show, it is a show based on people being matched by “experts” and they get married literally the first time that they meet each other. Mad crazy concept! But, I definitely understand. Especially with today’s society. But, here’s the thing that prompted me to even write about this…Why are people so shallow and superficial?!

I’m sitting here watching this show, right? It’s the first episode and they’re about to do the first couple’s wedding. And, one of the grooms sent his bride a gift and ol’ girl damn near freaked out and almosted opted out of getting married. Guess what the gift was y’all? 2 sports jersey!! 😲 Now, I get it, a sports jersey as a wedding gift to your future partner that you haven’t met yet is a little weird. But, it wasn’t offensive or disrespectful. At least I don’t think so. And, I might be slightly biased about that since I like sports. But then again, I’m a lot more open-minded than most too; Kind of. But, it was soo crazy to watch someone make such a big deal over something so small. Like crazy, crazy!

So in watching all of these people, and listening to them describe their “perfect” person, it dawned on me on why I think so many people feel so “lonely” while being single. Like, some of these, um, criteria or standards are a little bit….far-fetched. I understand having certain standards, but when a person becomes TOO particular, I believe, it slims your chances in finding “your person”. Like the lady that received the sports jersey as a gift, she really sat down and started overthinking if the groom was really a huge sports fan. And, even implied that if he was a huge sports fan, that he wasn’t that intelligent. Like, sports and intelligence can’t go hand in hand. Now, I haven’t finish watching this season, so I don’t know how their relationship turned out. But, for the sake of this blog, lets say the guy was a huge sports fan and he also matches all of her other criteria, but she decided to not get married. She probably would have missed out on a potentially good partner for herself. Now she’s still “lonely” for another X amount of time, instead of being opened for a compromise.

All in all, I believe people should be more open-minded. And not just in regards to relationships, but in life in general. I believe because so many people are so close-minded, shallow, superficial, stuck in their ways, etc., that’s why there’s so much divisiveness in the world. And, I’m not sayin a person shouldn’t have their set of standards and list of likes and don’t likes. But, just be a little bit open to differences. A person might feel like they don’t like something, or like it, but they’ve never actually experienced that something. And before you say anything, people can like something they’ve never experienced. It’s like thinking the grass is greener somewhere else, but you’ve never seen the other grass. You just heard about it and think what you heard is what it is. You have to find out for yourself. Don’t knock it ’til you try it. 😊

Anywho, I just want everyone in the world to be kind, loving, happy and free-spirited. Anything outside of that is very interesting to me. 😁

Until next time….

Love, Peace & Blessings