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[–]HelloMomo 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lately it seems like half of everyone has "ACAB" or "BLM" in their profiles. Like damn, you only need like a sentence or two for a dating app bio? Can't you scrounge up a sentence or two of personality, without having to pad it out with your politics?

Anyways, I came across my 4th grade crush on an app this year, because we were both back in our hometown because covid. She was my first big crush. She seemed so enigmatic when we were 9, so worldly, so dynamic. I know she had created a pattern with me: not all girls I'm attracted to remind me of her in some way, but I am attracted to any girls who remind me of her. And so I'd long had this suspicion in the back of my mind that if I ever saw her again, I would be a goner.

But when I saw her tinder profile, with her short dyed hair and her politics-only bio, I wasn't. Not at all. She was just so basic. And there's a real tragedy in that, this wasted potential of all she could have been.

I thought for a second of swiping right just so I would know if she'd swiped right on me, just out of curiosity. But then I realized I did not care. Even if she had, it didn't matter. I genuinely had no real need to know. I didn't want to talk to her again; I would rather remember her fondly than really confront who she'd grown into it. So I swiped left, and carried on.