From Her Perspective

By Kati Cawley
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With every new year, we are all filled with the generally false hope that this year will be different. We won’t sleep around, or we’ll take our youth by the horns and finally stop worrying and enjoy ourselves. We’ll drink less, save more money, exercise, stop smoking. We’ll get the job we love and finally move out of that piece of crap apartment. We aim high, and, let’s face it, we generally fail.

So I have been thinking about some of my own resolutions, and what we can reasonably do to change about our lives to be better boys and girls in the new year. Here’s what I came up with:

For the girls:
Let’s try to stop getting so hung up on guys who are clearly wrong for us. We are far too funny, pretty and smart to waste our time on guys who are not wasting their time on us. Same goes for the guys, actually. If you like someone, and he or she isn’t interested, just move on. Badgering him/her into liking you never works. It just makes you look pathetic. I know from experience, dude. Not me personally, but a guy I know…

Why don’t we also give the guys that may not be the hottest in the bunch a chance? And I’m talking about a real chance. We’re all guilty of it. Usually, the hot guys are the ones who never had to try, so they’re personalities can be, we’ll say, lacking. The guys you may not notice right away are usually the funniest, coolest ones. I mean, think about all of the jocks you went to high school with. Most of them are hanging out in the local bar wearing track suits and ten-year-old letter jackets. See what I’m saying?

We could also try to be a little less catty. Although we tend to think it is so, not every girl is trying to steal your boyfriend, thinking you are fat and/or whispering about you to her friends behind her Cosmopolitan. If we all relaxed a little bit, we’d probably have a lot less drama and we’d all look a lot better in the eyes of the guys we’re trying to impress.

For the boys:
It is important to try, at all times, to be a stand-up guy. How would you want a guy to treat your sister or your best female friend? That’s how you should treat every girl you are potentially interested in. You’ll not only get a much higher caliber chick, but she’ll feel more comfortable and therefore be less likely to display insecure (read “psychotic”) characteristics.

All of you are adorable in some way. So don’t worry so much. We think most everything you do is cute in some way. If you just act like yourself, it is likely we are going to find something we like about you. We are far more attracted to a funny, sweet guy than an aloof, emotionally unavailable jerk.

Girls love when you let your guard down and show that you care about them. We like to be asked about ourselves, we like to share. We want to know you know our last names. Show us you’re interested in more than our boobs and asses. Chances are if you act that way, you’ll see them a lot sooner.

Service her first. Make sure she finishes.

2006 is going to be great. I hope everyone enjoys the remainder of 2005 and from this chick to all of you, have a healthy and happy New Year!