To worry is to be. To be is to worry.
I hate spam comments. I’m not too thrilled about comments that are solely abusive either. Still, apart from those varieties, I love getting relevant comments that refer to the content of a post or, if the comments go off on a tangent, to the content of the comments. They show me that, much to my [...]
I’m 56 and single. All things considered””my many neuroses being among those things to consider, the chances of me finding a woman with whom I’m likely to be able to enter into a romantic relationship are bleak at the moment. I use the word “bleak“? in the sense of the prospects of survival being a [...]
When I see a couple who have been married for decades and are still together, I have to smile. Don’t you? I mean, throughout all of those years, killing each other has never gone beyond the planning stage and, impossible though it may be to believe, for most of them it’s never been more than [...]
I’m single. In the past, I have considered submitting my profile to an online dating service, but I don’t think it’s worth the effort. The problem is, because I believe strongly in truth in advertising, my profile would have to read: Short, somewhat overweight, neurotic, middle income, not particularly handsome, introverted, well past middle-age man [...]
I don’t hold a traditional view of God. In fact, I usually describe myself as an atheist, but that’s not entirely accurate. Despite not believing in a god as such, I do believe that there is an amorphous, conscious force that controls the universe and is out to get me. I came to this conclusion [...]
I have a business degree, so I’ve been trained to focus on productivity. Consequently, I find the massive inefficiency of some of our most time-honored traditions to be utterly shameful. For example, think how much more productive we would all be and, consequently, how much more society could have accomplished over the course of human [...]
Over the course of my adult life, I have not been very successful at starting new intimate relationships. I wasn’t good at it in my childhood either, but it didn’t bother me all that much back then. However, as I approached adulthood, thoughts about and desires for such relationships began to consume a far greater [...]
One of the greatest of the many things that disturb me about aging is that it has created an intensely frustrating asymmetry. I am now far too old for many women who I don’t in any way consider to be too young for me.