Are You Dating?

Or single and looking for dates? Recently widowed and looking for a friend?

Recently divorced and just seeking a fling? Fascinating facts just in from the LBN (Late Breaking News) alert, which comes to the email box daily:

--“People whose clothes smell of pine are perceived to be more successful, intelligent, sociable, sanitary and attractive than people whose clothes smell of lemon, onion or smoke.”  

--“On sight, men view taller women as more intelligent, affluent, and ambitious. They view shorter women as more nurturing and considerate.”

So the closer you are to looking and smelling like a pine tree, the better chances you’ll have at dating, single one.  Well, okay, these are just one set of stats. Other statistics are touted by the services for dating, single mingling, serious relationships, intimate but casual romps, and marriage.  These stats are promising:

According to one of the dating singles article, online services alone account for helping over 7 million men and women a year, worldwide. 

And if you are still reticent about the whole online flirting, courting, dating, single-searching, meeting, or getting involved, you might be put at ease when you learn that (according to the same article) in America alone 48% of adult men and 53% of adult women have registered with at least one dating service or agency.

And you probably think these numbers of people were all tall, brilliant, gorgeous, and smelled like pine?  LOL.  Doubtful.  I don’t know of anyone who wears pine cologne…although I do know many who live in the woodlands, work in the woods, or hike a lot.  Does that count?

If you don’t work, live, or hike among the redolent trees, you can still enjoy a dating service.  If you’re among those who are ready for a serious, committed love relationship, or wanting to begin with very non-committal, casual dating to “see where that goes,” you can meet many others of the same mindset, of the same singleness of purpose or purposes of marriage.  Obviously, you don’t have to be rich, or tall, or have an I.Q that measures higher than the number of pairs of shoes you own.  You can have a 350 big block, a hot off the floor Ferrari, or a cutting edge, politically correct electric auto.  You can be as tall as Tom Cruise or as fat as Ichabod Crane - really.

For, as William Adams, ship builder, diplomat, advisor, navigator and astronomer, once said, "You can have anything you want," he encouraged, "if you want it badly enough.”