How I learned Life & Men have a lot in common...

Let me set the mood for you… So here it is about 5pm or so on a Tuesday evening and I am sitting at the bar with my favorite girl Crystal mulling over this guy, this guy, whom we will call Mark Darcy or M.D. (seeing as so many of you compare me to Bridget Jones, it’s only fitting…). I start talking about how much I like M.D. more and more everyday and the nervous smile starts to emerge. I take a big gulp of my beer and I begin explaining why I think he only wants to be friends. Mind you, I have no clue what he wants…. But no reason to get my hopes up just to be disappointed later on. So after my explanation of how smitten I am over M.D. and my confusion as to whether he was truly interested in more than just a friendship. I listen to Crystal tell me he HAS to be interested in more than a friendship… I didn’t like that response. I think I would have rather heard he’s just not that into you. It’s a lot easier than taking a chance on being hurt. So unhappy with her response, who else to ask advise from but a guy who has no alterior motives, so I asked Shina. I explain that this guy is not like any guy I have ever dated or been interested in. He isn’t an aggressive jerk and he has more to talk about than beer & sex, he is super respectful, makes me laugh, gives me butterflies with just a phone call, and honestly cares what is going on inside my head! He calls when he says he’s going to and even when he doesn’t say he’s going to. However, I am confused about his intentions but most men confuse me anyways so not much is terribly new here. I talk to him almost every day but it stays pretty much friendly NOT AT ALL WHAT I AM USE TOO! As we all know, I usually end up with pretentious pricks, block heads, and/or self absorbed losers. This guy doesn’t fall in to any of the above categories which deemed him worthy of asking Shina advice. Shina looked at me and said something I never thought I would hear a man say. “They are not all the same, they are not all jerks, they don’t all have bad intentions, they do not all think the same…. Ashton…. Men are like a box of chocolates you never know what you are going to get! Stop trying to figure it all out and do what your doing and go with the flow” And then there it was, the most genious and honest advise on men I had ever gotten…. Genius Shina! Genius! And I thought Forrest Gump was a genius! All this time and Shina was holding out on me. So there it is ladies and gentleman, Men ARE like a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get!