Group therapy in a blog.
Step Right Up: Metaphors and Similes
I know it’s been a while since English class, so here’s a review. A simile is a comparison between two things using “like” or “as.” For instance, if you were to say “I was soaring like an eagle,” that’s a simile. A metaphor drops the “like” or “as” and creates a direct comparison: “I was an eagle, soaring above the crowds.”
Dating is hell. Dating is a circus. Dating is like shopping for swimsuits. Dating is like a day at the races. Dating is like a seder or repentance. (Oops, I’ve done those already.) Metaphors or similes, I don’t care, step up and pitch them here.
If you need examples or inspiration, check this recent column, “Dating is Like…”
Plus, your scrolling bonus, this week’s column (“The Seder and the Black Swan“) extra early…
Dating is like surfing.
Sometimes you hang 10.
Sometimes you get sucked down by an undertow.
Ergh I meant sucked “with” the undertow.
Sigh, “Sucked down “with the undertow.” Sorry the previous ones came out weird.
Being in a wonderful, loving, supportive relationship with my boyfriend of over 6 months is HEAVENLY!
Dating is like going to Sunday Brunch buffet. Everything you love all out there on the table in unlimited quantities, no limits. Except sometimes the made-to-order omelette is made with eggs-in-a-carton, or the lox is too salty. On the other hand, you can always have the waiter bus your plate and start over. Sometimes you go back for plate after plate, tasting and rejecting, or just getting bored and going back for Something Different, until you’re wondering how you’ll ever eat again, never mind how you’ll manage to get up and walk out of the restaurant. Sometimes, though, you wind up having a sublime moment of blintz meets sour cream meets perfect coffee. It all tastes just right and you stop when you’re satiated and content, enjoying the Nothing Could Be Better Than This moment.
And in response to the scroll-down bonus….Thanks for the link to The Seder and the Black Swan. I love seder at my parents – for years, there’s been a great mix of “regular suspects” and new folks, old and new haggadot, yummy food, and “Ten Plagues in a Box.” It has never occured to me to feel the Odd One Out.
Until this year.
Somewhere, in the back of my cusp-of-forty mind, a little voice: “You’re too old for this.”
“?”
“You know — going home for Pesach like you have since college. Aren’t you a little old for that now?”
I was so shocked at this little inner voice, I fed it a bunch of matzah to shut it up, and pretended that nothing had happened.
But it’s been bugging me. Where else would I be? Even when I’ve been in relationships, and in my fantasy of married life, this is the Seder table I want to be at – the one I want to share with that Someone Special. This is the model for my Jewish life, right here. How could I outgrow that, ever?
Reading The Seder and the Black Swan gave me another way to think about things: what story is trying to get itself told here? What do I think of being single, “still going home for Pesach” from the vantage point of my almost-forty-ness? I dunno yet. But I’m glad to have an occasion to ask the question – a “black swan moment.” Thanks.
dating is like sleeping. if you get enough of the right kind, you feel great, you have boundless energy, and you can make it without it for a little bit. if you get too much or not enough, you are lethargic, irritable, and the only thing you need more than anything else is to get any or more of it!!!
Dating is like war, at least to DARPA:
[http://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/DARPA/CMO/SN07-28/Synopsis.html]
Cheers & Good Luck, ‘VJ’
Dating is like a pleasant card game, where you get married in the end. 4 Min after meeting for the first time. No kidding. Cheers, ‘VJ’
Via the BBC: (Sun, April 15, 07)
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/6552333.stm]
“Man proposes after four minutes
Carl and Danielle Dockings met playing cards online
A single father-of-two proposed to an American woman he met on the internet four minutes after flying 4,000 miles to see her for the first time.
Carl Dockings, 36, from Newport, south Wales, popped the question to Danielle at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport after the pair met playing cards on the internet.
The 26-year-old said “yes” and the couple were married four months later”. BBC