The Life of a Serial Dater

9/22/10
Jennifer Carroll
English Class
Essay #2

                            An Essay Viewing a Girl of Unquestionable Standards (In a Way)

           (TS) A lot of people say that they are strange or have other people telling each other how bizarre someone is. (CM) Some even take pride in the fact that they are a little different from the rest of humanity. (CM) Others may take offense. (SD) The girl that I'm writing about in this essay doesn't even consider the fact that she may be different then the rest of us. (CM) She looks at herself in a mirror and thinks that her personality, her way of living is average and normal. (CM) Everyone around her, however, has a clear view to how it is obviously odd. (SD) Dating sprees, heavy drinking and late night (or early morning) partying is all routine her. (CM) Boyfriends come and go with the ever changing seasons, the flow never slowing or stopping, but remaining the same. (CM) Dancing and drinking is a fun night out, not something to be avoided but also not something just to do from time to time.(SD) This quirky twenty five year old has seen enough of a world like her own and has met enough people like herself as to see herself as the typical American. The people she calls friends I would look at with suspicion while the people she dislikes are usually the ones who went to college. I know she looks at herself with nothing on her mind but maybe how her dress looks or if the boy said he was picking her up at eight or nine, not with any sort idea of how she's so unusual.  However, if she was normal, I would have a different outlandish person to be writing about.  
           (TS) This girl that I'm writing about right now has so far dated five guys in the last month. (CM) She hasn't held a job for three weeks and she has been to more parties in the last two weeks that I've been to in the last fourteen years. (CM) Her life is a whirlwind of laughing and drinks and slurred "I love you's" but when the party's over, the boys have left and there's no one laughing what does she have then? (SD) Alexia (names have been changed) likes dating men from all different professions but never stays with them long even when they're especially sweet or exceptionally handsome. (CM) I think that she's afraid of commitment because even when she does seem to like a guy she breaks up with him or acts so distant and removed that he is forced to break up with her. (CM) She is like a serial dater; she moves on so fast to the next guy that you're likely to get whiplash trying to follow all of her conquests. (SD) Another thing that makes her seem a little odd to me is her job. (CM) Alexia doesn't even try to get a job, but she complains to the people around her that she's "trying my best" and that it just isn't good enough. (CM) When she does manage to catch a job, she works really hard for the first week or so but after that slacks off and stops caring about it. (SD) Also, she stays out late and generally has a really high-risk lifestyle that's unhealthy and very eccentric for a twenty five year old. (CM) She wanted to be a model, so she stays extremely thin by not eating much, then she goes out drinking every other night. (CM) It's terrible for her, and a lot of people are concerned but she doesn't seem to care and continues in the same routine night after night. (CS) If she could get a hold of herself, become healthier and get a job I think she could have a chance at a pleasant and comfortable life but as it is, I can't see any good options for her unless she stops with this craziness now.
            (TS) In this world, there are many strange and different people living. (CM) Some may be obvious, like the homeless man you saw on the subway muttering to himself while others may be as subtle as a lazy eye. (CM) All people have some peculiar thing about them, no one is perfectly average and plain. (SD) Alexia, although weird, is also wonderful for having some sort of difference about her. (CM) Her unhealthy and dangerous lifestyle may not serve her well in the end but for now she remains blissfully unaware of the possible consequences and lives in one hectic and eccentric way after the other. (CM) It's simply a cycle of faces and alcohol and dim lights for her but that is what separates ordinary from extraordinary. (SD) Alexia is extraordinary because she allows herself to be whomever she wants to be. (CM) She doesn't have to be prim and proper and while dangerous and sad, her life holds no boundaries except those made by money. (CM) The boys, the beer and everything else is there because she wants it to be; she holds nothing she doesn't want. (SD) Another thing that, while out of the ordinary   is nice about Alexia is that having a good time in life is more important then anything to her. (CM) Money, education, everything pales to her in face of a potential bash. (CM) The best thing that she can do to cheer herself up is put on a nice dress, heavy make up and high heels to go out and fall in love on the dance floor. (CS) Alexia, while a continuous creature of bad habits, does teach us something: whether it's dancing, learning or life, everything and anything can be improved by a little strangeness mixed with a touch of normal.