I met my guy on Tinder! He tells me how hard it is for a man on Tinder. He is tall and dark and handsome and it was still an uphill climb. He sent a killer first message and hooked me right there. We haven't looked back since.
And after I moved to a new city and was lonely, I would read the missed connections section on Craigslist and marvel: "I saw you at the mattress store last week. You: Chunky and wearing a red t-shirt. Me: the guy testing out the hard mattresses. That's not all that was hard." It brings me great joy in a way I can't explain.
You are SO right. Why expect complete strangers to do for you what you couldn't do for yourself? Why not say something? Let's do better
Ah I LOVE this! This is so precious. It's so wild how we've made a hierarchy of "where" the most romantic place is to meet someone. On a date last week, he reminded me that if I wasn't for the app there's just no way our lives would have probably collided.
The missed connections are just poetry aren't they!
This is one of the best things I’ve read in a long long time. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts I couldn’t string together eloquently or at all.
Hi Claudia, excuse my tardiness, just logging back into Substack properly today. This is just so beautifully generous of you to say and has touched me so deeply. Grateful to you for reading my words.
I DID! Susan, I had to read it multiple times and screenshot it, because it's just spectacular isn't it. How life so wildly pushes you into someone's path like that. Have you heard of the red string theory?
Yes! I spent a few years in Japan and there the idea of the red string — akai ito — is common. There was actually a J-drama called Akai Ito if I’m not mistaken! 😭 But yeah Lena’s story is so extraordinary, it does feel like magic!
Ahhh I just adore your writing, Giselle. Delectable, resonant, important, and witty; this essay collects sooo many of my own thoughts and sentiments so stunningly in sequence. I love your substack. It is critical (which I appreciate, as a questionner and renegade myself) yet also bright with your optimism, and bright with your humour. I need the brightness in my current Saturn return season. You're a queen. And if I ever got to meet you in person, or stroll past you on your side of the world, I would declare that. I am that kind of person hehe.
Darling Laura, (excuse the delay, it has been a WEEK). Firstly, thank you. And, the feeling is so mutual, I could tell from the first lines of your writing that we see the world in such a similar way. From one renegade to another, it is a joy having you here and e-meeting you x
I met my guy on Tinder! He tells me how hard it is for a man on Tinder. He is tall and dark and handsome and it was still an uphill climb. He sent a killer first message and hooked me right there. We haven't looked back since.
And after I moved to a new city and was lonely, I would read the missed connections section on Craigslist and marvel: "I saw you at the mattress store last week. You: Chunky and wearing a red t-shirt. Me: the guy testing out the hard mattresses. That's not all that was hard." It brings me great joy in a way I can't explain.
You are SO right. Why expect complete strangers to do for you what you couldn't do for yourself? Why not say something? Let's do better
Ah I LOVE this! This is so precious. It's so wild how we've made a hierarchy of "where" the most romantic place is to meet someone. On a date last week, he reminded me that if I wasn't for the app there's just no way our lives would have probably collided.
The missed connections are just poetry aren't they!
Can’t even put into words how much I love this.
Oh Catherine, a delight having you here as always.
This is one of the best things I’ve read in a long long time. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts I couldn’t string together eloquently or at all.
Hi Claudia, excuse my tardiness, just logging back into Substack properly today. This is just so beautifully generous of you to say and has touched me so deeply. Grateful to you for reading my words.
Have you read Lena Dunham’s social media post about crossing paths with her now-husband in like, 2007? It’s FASCINATING.
I DID! Susan, I had to read it multiple times and screenshot it, because it's just spectacular isn't it. How life so wildly pushes you into someone's path like that. Have you heard of the red string theory?
Yes! I spent a few years in Japan and there the idea of the red string — akai ito — is common. There was actually a J-drama called Akai Ito if I’m not mistaken! 😭 But yeah Lena’s story is so extraordinary, it does feel like magic!
And proof of magic.
Ahhh I just adore your writing, Giselle. Delectable, resonant, important, and witty; this essay collects sooo many of my own thoughts and sentiments so stunningly in sequence. I love your substack. It is critical (which I appreciate, as a questionner and renegade myself) yet also bright with your optimism, and bright with your humour. I need the brightness in my current Saturn return season. You're a queen. And if I ever got to meet you in person, or stroll past you on your side of the world, I would declare that. I am that kind of person hehe.
Darling Laura, (excuse the delay, it has been a WEEK). Firstly, thank you. And, the feeling is so mutual, I could tell from the first lines of your writing that we see the world in such a similar way. From one renegade to another, it is a joy having you here and e-meeting you x