05/14/2025
Relationship Cautionary Tales - #3
You are not going to attract someone from across the room with your inner self. Finding love or making new friends takes effort. Looking attractive is literal. It attracts. Playing down your appeal signals not interested in attracting. Smiling at people within a 5-foot radius signals that you would welcome their approach, and a smile must be in your social toolbox. If you are uncomfortable about smiling, practice on furniture, then on animals and small children, before you go into live action with adults. Being stationary while holding up a wall, being seated and thereby less visible, or putting yourself in a corner, is self-imposed isolation. Move about, mingle. No one can love you, like you, or think they want to know you better if they can’t find you.