Monday, November 16, 2009

Take Me As I Am

the latest craze in town is to get incoherent a man. even guys are getting in on it. asking me about this guy or that. pointing out the good qualities of this dude or that one. there's one chick who has been threatening to create a profile for me on one of these online dating sites. now, i am even more guarded with my pictures than i used to be. sigh.

as if that weren't bad enough, i now get advice on how i can "fix" myself so i can get the man:

lose that stomach. dress better. wear makeup. show more cleavage. you're too bossy. need to tone it down. don't be so sarcastic. let the man be a man. must you be so geeky? no one cares about the wonders of the LHC. put down that popular mechanics; here, read a cosmo. why are you in this aisle drooling over that drill set?

why must it be that there is something wrong me? why can it not be that i am going through a me phase right now, and a man wouldn't fit in? what is wrong in expecting a man to want me for me? the tomboy dork who wants to change the world. i like museums and the opera and Broadway. i also like T.I and Eminem and Nas. I have partied 4 days straight getting only 6 hours of sleep in between. but i have also sat in the lab for the same 4 days on the same 6 hours of sleep.

my point is i don't want to change. i have room for improvement. we all do. but i don't want anyone who cannot be content with the me of right now. i don't want or ask my loved ones to change. if they change for the better in some way, thats cool. but i will love them even if they never change. do i not have the right to ask for the same acceptance of me in return?

so man, boyfriend, love, husband: if you actually exist (because i don't believe everyone is meant to be married or "with" someone), you better come willing to to me just as i am cuz i aint changing.....at least not until i am good and well ready to.

6 comments:

Tinu said...

mehn omo free that!! life is way to short to worry abt losing that or being less geeky and what not!!
Do You..Be You!! whoever loves you will love you for you!

incoherent said...

YES O!! thats the plan! :)

loving the shoe in the profile pic by the way

Fragilelooks said...

is it worth it to change cuz pple tink u shld?? even wen u change dem go still find comma. just be u jare. who no like,make e go hug transformer.

Muse said...

hey luv, don't let anyone try to change you into their own vision of life. be who you are. and if anyone doesn't like that, SCREW 'EM!

CaramelD said...

I shouted at the last person who told me that I need to change my hobbies to get a man! Imagine!!!! Foolish and ingredients! Be yourself, only better :) I don't get people who pretend otherwise. You will definately crack at some point!!!!!

Mwajim Al said...

I definitely share ur opinion on this one... Society expects women who want to aim higher to confirm to how we are expected to be... I don't c y we can't be both! Am also planning to go 4 a ph.d program by God's grace next year, so am glad I have seen ur blog, I'll c it as a role model :)