Cognitive Dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding conflicting ideas simultaneously. Like buyers remorse, especially in something expensive. Like when I bought my Mini Cooper S, I really wanted a Porsche Boxster but, the Mini seemed like the sensible alternative. Not actually knowing if I was going to live in Washington State or Georgia, influenced my choice and I played it safe. I wound up living in Florida and San Diego with a Mini that had higher maintenance costs and was ferociously unreliable. What hurt the most was that I had compromised myself and what I knew was true for the sake of appealing to some idea of reasonable practicality.
Its hard for me to fall in love with someone I don't know. Even harder for me to try to get to know someone without giving off the impression that I'm interested in them. I know what love is; I've been there before. I know it is not a measure of justifiable reasons to be with someone. It is not a cerebral action to be taken like picking out parking spaces. But what I don't know is how to get there from here, back to finding that visceral spark, back to feeling the pressure of the unstoppable force that sleeps within me.
I have a LOT of female friends and I could come up with a variety of reasons why I would want to date any of them. At the end of the day, I don't want to be stuck with someone knowing that there is no spark but, there could have been if I was listening hard enough.
I agree with what Hommer has said.