I remember the first time I masterdated...
and in case you read that wrong, I said masterDATED š
It was my first time. I was nervousā¦ anxiousā¦ scaredā¦
I didnāt know what to expect. Was I really going to do this in public? Would everyone be staring at me? Am I completely out of my element here?
My very first masterdate was a trip to a little cafe for breakfast followed by sitting on the beach with the sunshine on my face and a good book in hand.
It was pleasurable to say the least. š
If youāre reading this and thinking, āwtf is she talking about?ā let me paint you a picture of what masterdating is and how Iāve now adopted the term as my own.
Iām not uber creative when it comes to punsāI mean, grow with the glow (instead of go with the flow) is kind of obvious, isnāt it?
I think the best thing Iāve ever come up with is perhaps my former hatchet throwing team name: Iām So Axecited and I Just Canāt Hatchet. What can I say, Iām a dork.
Although not my strongest suit, Iām a complete sucker for clever word play.
So when I was minding my own business, watching some trashy reality tv, and heard Tom Schwartz from The Valley coin the term āmasterdating,ā I damn near lost it.
First, I laughed. Then I got stuck on, āOmg how did I never think of this?!ā
Masterdating: The art of dating yourself
** Leave a comment below if you want to hear his taglineāhint: itās dripping with innuendo if youāre into that kind of humor. š¤
Part of my entire identity stems from taking myself on dates. Iāve crafted posts about it, put it in my book as the number one thing I did to learn how to connect with myself, I wrote an essay about it, and the list goes on.
And all this time Iāve called it solo-dating when I could have been encouraging people to go masterdate. Such a missed opportunity!
So thank you Tom Schwartz, for spicing up my life and vocabulary a bit. Iāll be sure to do the term justice moving forward because now I canāt think of calling it anything else.
Okay, who else is ready to masterdate?? šāāļø