Sunday, October 05, 2008

My George Costanza Year

One of my favorite episodes of "Seinfeld" is the one where George Costanza decides he's tired of being a loser, and that the way to remedy the situation is by approaching everything in life the opposite way he would naturally be inclined to.  As the episode goes on, he finds that as he's taken this approach, everything is starting to go his way in all areas of his life.

I feel this is a George Costanza time for me in the area of my singleness.  Clearly whatever I've been doing or not doing has not been working.  Maybe I've picked the wrong "type," maybe I'm not looking in the right places, maybe I've closed doors to people or avenues that felt distasteful for wrong reasons.  Whatever it is, I know there is still no guarantee that everything will turn around.  But feeling a little burned by my own tendencies, I'm willing to try doing the opposite of me for a while.