my reminder to myself

What happened to just getting to KNOW someone? Our generation puts so much pressure on the relationship and naming it and keeping it in a cage and cuddling it so that it dies prematurely due to suffucation. What's wrong with just keeping a steady pace and being friends first? I too am guilty of wanting to jump the gun, but only because it's beaten into me. Everything moves too fast. Everyone's at a full on sprint, like life and love is a race to the finish line. Meet, lust, date, force relationship, boring lull, fight, break up, hate. Is it so terrible to want to be old fashioned and understand and fully appreciate the person I'm with? The real me is introverted, self aware, self respecting, and shy. I feel all around me the growing trend of skanky sex pot, but I have no desire to compete. Then I see the army of hoes with boyfriends on their arm and look at my own arm which is surprisingly lonely...and yes, you guessed it, my arm is attached to my body and therefore all of me is lonely. So what to do?! I am happy with myself, so I'll wait to find a guy who is equally as happy with the girl who hides behind her camera and thinks she can talk to dogs-- because that person will be worth it. They just have to take the time to figure me out themselves...and once they do I just have to hope they are a similar breed of crazy. So let's slow down our sprint and take a walk and enjoy each other. We have time.