My friend is convinced the girl I went out with a few times may be ghosting me. After our second date, we talked about how much fun we had and wanted to do it again. I know she’s out of town so I’ll give her a pass for a few days. Could she be ghosting me? Absolutely. Will she text me/go out again? Who knows, but I’d like to.

Even though I know these things will happen (more often than not), the thought of being ghosted really upset me.

It was weird, last night I was a little tipsy watching Master Of None and I almost started to tear up about everything. I couldn’t help but laugh at myself for it, I mean we went out twice lol. Could everything over the past ~5 months be catching up to me, emotionally? I suppose.

Maybe it’s because this is my first series of dates since my last relationship and I may be romanticizing it. I think I’m just expecting the best person for me to just walk into my life immediately. Thinking like that will only set me up for failure and more disappointment. I have a bad habit of putting people on a pedestal instead of seeing them for who they truly are. Maybe I thought there was something there when there isn’t.

It’s funny, I have a friend who is in a similar situation and he always asks me for advice. I have all the advice in the world to give, but find it hard to take my own. I know I need to work on lowering my expectations and learn to not romanticize things and just take everything for what it is or what it will be.

I’m on mobile so this all may be one big mess of paragraphs. But if you made it this far, how do you stop from romanticizing everything?