Of Sex, Text, Hang-ups, Hook-ups and TV Chats
As boredom arises to a maximum level I found myself going back and forth to a TV chat where messages are thrown continuously at the screen as if film credits would go aimlessly. I observed for a while taking very particular attention to what these people are - their gender, their sexuality, their purpose - for joining the chat room, and instantly, I got hooked.
Take this for example: A girl was looking for a guy who could be her bf with the last sentence as "as long as you don't lie". What? Where did that come from? Obviously this was from a former encounter.
And another one: A man is looking for an instant gf and his last sentence was "Makati area only". Ah yes, how awful it must have been for him to travel from somewhere far yet was not able to get a sweet girl's 'yes'.
And another chatter: A discreet bisexual looking for a hook-up.
These set of people are looking for something to amuse them or kill time or share their life with, then I realized how much loneliness people had felt looking. Temporary or long-lasting happiness, they are still on the prowl.
As the messages on the chat keep scrolling ultimately coming from any one, I thought I could use some fun that time and look for temporary happiness and maybe find something that would last but my conscience just could never dare do it. You see this is where it all started; my first hook-up and the successive ones so I know how it felt: from random chats to a one (or two or more) night stand to a text relationship to a pseudo-relationship to nothing at all. And in conclusion, you get tangled in this sticky web of would be, could be, should be's.
If there is one thing I have learned, it is the silver rule: Never Assume. I have learnt it, and so will they.
And then I changed the channel to Nickelodeon.
P.S. Today is World AIDS Day, get yourself tested before you get infected.
Take this for example: A girl was looking for a guy who could be her bf with the last sentence as "as long as you don't lie". What? Where did that come from? Obviously this was from a former encounter.
And another one: A man is looking for an instant gf and his last sentence was "Makati area only". Ah yes, how awful it must have been for him to travel from somewhere far yet was not able to get a sweet girl's 'yes'.
And another chatter: A discreet bisexual looking for a hook-up.
These set of people are looking for something to amuse them or kill time or share their life with, then I realized how much loneliness people had felt looking. Temporary or long-lasting happiness, they are still on the prowl.
As the messages on the chat keep scrolling ultimately coming from any one, I thought I could use some fun that time and look for temporary happiness and maybe find something that would last but my conscience just could never dare do it. You see this is where it all started; my first hook-up and the successive ones so I know how it felt: from random chats to a one (or two or more) night stand to a text relationship to a pseudo-relationship to nothing at all. And in conclusion, you get tangled in this sticky web of would be, could be, should be's.
But these people, these who endlessly provide their numbers for whatever reason they have, they still have not found what they are looking for yet, or, maybe they have but are not yet content.
If there is one thing I have learned, it is the silver rule: Never Assume. I have learnt it, and so will they.
And then I changed the channel to Nickelodeon.
P.S. Today is World AIDS Day, get yourself tested before you get infected.
i used to watch that and make fun of some of the texters. they really do spend on that. hehe. it's good reality tv though. haha
ReplyDeleteand may i ask what do you watch in nickelodeon?
some prefer things quick and instant. easy to get, easier to forget.
ReplyDeleteand yeah, you watch cartoons? share a list!
What stupidity! Like seeing someone saying "wanted serious relationship."
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I wonder how one should respond to it. Like "hey, I'm interested on that relationship you're offering."
well desperate times. this is one easy solution to meet other lonely and bored people.
ReplyDeletei've been in that phase in my younger years. it was kinda addicting at first. but then just like g4m, eventually you realize that there wouldn't be anybody you'd take seriously from these channels.
but on rare occassions though, you'll get lucky.
Chat ba kamo. Hello IRc. Lolz
ReplyDelete*my-so-called-Quest - when you look at it from a sociological point of view it is a great reality tv, better than Survivor!
ReplyDelete*Alter - well these people want the easy way which is never the best way. Never.
*Desole Boy - think of it as a last move in chess wherein the moment you make the wrong one you're out, that's how they are feeling hence the act. Don't condemn them for that. :)
*engel - well then it means I have never been lucky. As much rarity and as how often I had been here, nothing just worked. Oh well, back to the drawing board.
*Mu[g]en - haha! I have never tried IRc just good old Ym in its heyday with the private rooms.
Cartoons? I watch a lot of them!
1. Fairly Oddparents
2. Old episodes of Spongebob Squarepants
3. Real Monsters
4. Rocko's Modern Life
5. Jimmy Neutron
6. Phineas and Ferb
7. Danny Phantom
Well okay not a lot though but adequate.
ingat lang sa mga ganito.
ReplyDeletethough i found my partner for 7 yrs (& counting) thru SMART mobile chat. so posible din =)
Bakit wala yata nyan sa isteyts? maka join sana echos! haha (or di ko lang alam?)
ReplyDeleteI'd say, walang basagan ng trip ;-)
You know G, sometimes, though we try not to, we can recognize parts of ourselves in these messages. The desire to be loved. The need to have sex.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it is because we see ourselves in these people that we dislike it. Because we know, one day, it could be us looking for love in TV chat.
ako di sumasali sa mga ganyan kasi sayang load ko hihihihi
ReplyDelete*Mksurf8 - a rare feat indeed. Kudos!
ReplyDelete*JR - haha, exactly.That's what they want then let them be.
*Kane - looking back, it is quite possible that history will repeat itself, after all, beauty is only skin deep, and sex, well, is most accessible thru TV chats.
*hard2getxxx - haha! Yeah right!!! Two pesos and fifty cents for some fun? Come on!