musing about luck

LTMMC

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Strange how variable an assessment can come out about good and bad luck!

I used to believe that I have had nothing but bad luck lately, but last night I began thinking about my luck in a different way. And now it appears my luck has not been so bad after all. Here my rationale – for readers interested in philosophical musings. If that does not interest you, better skip this post.

When I consider how low the probability is of anybody finding their soulmate via the Lit Personals – less than one percent – according to sensible estimates I made – I had been extremely lucky actually. Not that I found her, but over the last five months or so I was in contact with several nice and sweet women, with whom a connection like I search for was almost working out. Or might have worked out.

Which conveys some good news to me: while a perfect resonance, like I tried to describe in one of my ads, happens very rarely indeed, almost-perfect ones occur much more often. Of course I am talking about discerning people searching for connections. For people less fussy, the "connection game" can work out in a jiffy.

So one possible conclusion: do not aim for perfection. Instead focus on what is absolutely essential only. For me: the woman I yearn to meet must possess a knack for falling in love "virtually", i.e. without physical or RL contacts. She must find the mental closeness possible in a mail affair, sufficient under the circumstances. I wrote down my thoughts about this in an ad comparing dreaming with reality. Of course this "knack for" I mention tends to develop much easier, when it has to. For instance in a woman intent on remaining married to her spouse, but still needing an intimate affair with someone.

Next essential: the kind of deep curiosity for another human being I have mentioned in a prior ad. The way I see it, if this does not exist – in either the man or the woman – any connection that develops will always remain superficial. Without a genuine interest to understand another person well, what moves her, what excites her, what troubles her, meaningful or genuine connections just simply cannot happen. IMHO at least.

OK, a genuine need for the kind of affair I am dreaming about must exist also, but here the "hit rate" will be high, on Literotica I assume. Now the only thing that needs to happen, over and above the essentials I mentioned, are some boundary conditions to make a working mail affair possible.

One final thought on luck: it seems to me, if a 46th President was possible, and a stock market that did not tank due to all the difficulties becoming apparent lately, why should I not experience the luck also, of meeting a halfways-perfectly resonating partner one of these days?
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I can’t help but think that, if you invested half as much time in your marriage as you do intellectually masturbating here for an audience of none, that you might not have to post here at all.
 
I can’t help but think that, if you invested half as much time in your marriage as you do intellectually masturbating here for an audience of none, that you might not have to post here at all.

Dear Elizabeth! How can you possibly think of yourself as an audience of none?

I would never do that, and I promise I will take your excellent suggestion under advisement.
 
Does it make you feel good..

I can’t help but think that, if you invested half as much time in your marriage as you do intellectually masturbating here for an audience of none, that you might not have to post here at all.

when you post such condescending shit on someone's post ? i mean if you had it made out there, you wouldn't be here - now would you ?? so fucking give it a rest !!
 
when you post such condescending shit on someone's post ? i mean if you had it made out there, you wouldn't be here - now would you ?? so fucking give it a rest !!

Anyone can reply, and I agree with her. He makes long winded posts about him, using a variety of names. It's quite tiresome.
 
I thank both of you, AD and cupcake, for your supporting remarks. They mean a lot to me, in face of the two hecklers here lately. Nobody likes to be heckled, and seeing some opposition to heckling on this board, I find encouraging.

A few comments in your direction, Elizabeth and Jada: you really ought to feel ashamed of yourself. If you find my posts tiresome Jada, then just don't bother reading them. Your obnoxious bickering about what I write is …. obnoxious simply. Because my style of writing is none of your business.

And you could keep your prejudice against married men to yourself, Elizabeth. No reason you have to go on a crusade about that, as you seem to be doing.

It may be a bit far-fetched to explain the spitefulness of these two non-ladies by a reference to the spirit of the election campaign, but perhaps it is not. I say when the Fucker-Up-in-Chief of a whole nation does not see vigorous resistance to his perennial lies, but instead almost half the population likes what he does, it is no wonder that characters like these two can believe they are doing a service to womankind.
 
I thank both of you, AD and cupcake, for your supporting remarks. They mean a lot to me, in face of the two hecklers here lately. Nobody likes to be heckled, and seeing some opposition to heckling on this board, I find encouraging.

A few comments in your direction, Elizabeth and Jada: you really ought to feel ashamed of yourself. If you find my posts tiresome Jada, then just don't bother reading them. Your obnoxious bickering about what I write is …. obnoxious simply. Because my style of writing is none of your business.

And you could keep your prejudice against married men to yourself, Elizabeth. No reason you have to go on a crusade about that, as you seem to be doing.

It may be a bit far-fetched to explain the spitefulness of these two non-ladies by a reference to the spirit of the election campaign, but perhaps it is not. I say when the Fucker-Up-in-Chief of a whole nation does not see vigorous resistance to his perennial lies, but instead almost half the population likes what he does, it is no wonder that characters like these two can believe they are doing a service to womankind.

I'm never ashamed of myself. But you should know about heckling. Some long time ago, a very nice man pointed out that you had been stalking my posts. I guess if he hadn't done that, not only would I not have known that you were heckling me, but I wouldn't have known that he is my sort of cousin. My blood aunt married his blood uncle. Small world, huh?:cattail:
 
I'm never ashamed of myself. But you should know about heckling. Some long time ago, a very nice man pointed out that you had been stalking my posts. I guess if he hadn't done that, not only would I not have known that you were heckling me, but I wouldn't have known that he is my sort of cousin. My blood aunt married his blood uncle. Small world, huh?:cattail:

That was a truly suspenseful story you told us, Jada. I am sure everybody on Lit is waiting to hear all about you and your long lost cousin. Especially when you report the news on a thread that I have started, about a totally different subject.

But I know you have a knack for pirating everything on Lit for your own purpose. Keep on trucking Jada!
 
more on the luck of making a connection

Here some thoughts I did not give proper weight to in my initial post: in order for a man like me connecting with a woman who is right for himself, via an ad he posts, this woman has to exist, and she must be in a mood to read personal ads today. So if no woman today yearns for a connection she does not have, and she might be missing, all the attention my ad gets comes from hecklers like Jada or Elizabeth.

Or from a woman a bit bored, who's curious about "the post traffic" today. Well the curious one yesterday is not curious enough so it seems, so here I am fishing for more attention.

The strange thing about my ads: I keep offering something in every one of them, and what I offer is almost free for the taking. Except for the involvement I seek from you. The way I see it, an offer no sensible woman should refuse. But apparently such offers are suspect. If it does not cost anything, or far too little, how can it be worth anything?

Maybe I should instead start a kind of bidding game?

But another alternative is to simply keep waiting. Maybe Thursday is my lucky day? Perhaps all the female attention that went to The Atlantic yesterday, or The Washington Post, will turn to the Lit Personals today. That's what I am hoping for anyway.
 
Lots of things are free. Doesn't mean they're worthwhile.
 
Lots of things are free. Doesn't mean they're worthwhile.

Good morning to you, dear Jada! And this time, I could not agree with you more.

But of course it goes wothout saying: my offer is worthwhile for sure. For the right kind of woman, that is.
 
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