Been there, Done that, Kept the Jewelry by Cooper Lawrence

Author:Cooper Lawrence
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: subject
ISBN: 9781440517600
Publisher: Polka Dot Press
Published: 2011-06-27T00:00:00+00:00

A Part of You Knows Better, But…

The problem isn't that you dated the Workout Guy or even that you spent a few months feeling superior to the rest of the human race; the problem is that you may feel bad about it afterward. You fancy yourself a nice person and you don't seek out people to whom you can feel superior. You simply need to recognize that you were at a time in your life when your ego was bruised, and you took the shortest route to gain some momentum. Just know that once you do start feeling better about yourself, you will wake up and realize that endless discussion of bodybuilding as an athletic endeavor versus bodybuilding as a sport is really not your bag. Marc Jacobs's is.

Meet Chelsea, a perpetual Workout Guy dater. Chelsea is from a very wealthy family: her great-grandfather was in shipping, so money, and all the focus on glamour and appearances that comes along with it, has been a part of her life for a couple of generations now. Despite her history of privilege, Chelsea's parents taught her the value of hard work, and made sure that she always had a summer job while she was in school. Now in her late twenties and a product of her generation, Chelsea has tried on several different career hats. With each one, she managed to find herself a different Workout Guy boyfriend: when she was a makeup artist, she dated a baseball player she met at a photo shoot; when she was a photographer for a travel magazine, she met a whitewater-rafting instructor in Fiji. Most recently, Chelsea has landed in the music industry, where she worked for a few years before asking her father to help her start her own music management company. Chelsea's music-industry-appropriate dating choice? A $300-an-hour personal trainer. And by “dating” we mean “sleeping together,” as well as dragging this particular Workout Guy to society events.

As Chelsea approached thirty, she took stock of her dating life, and began to recognize the inherent shallowness of so many of the industries was involved in. She was distressed to realize that she fell for all of that shallowness, hook, line, and sinker, by only dating athletic hunks who never really impacted her life. How could she have wasted her twenties doing nothing in particular and creating nothing substantive? She had little to show for her dating escapades: no real bonds and no relationship worth having. Years of dating these guys had left her feeling empty, and she became very depressed.

Like many women who indulge in the Workout Guy mentality, Chelsea became too comfortable in a superficial mode of thinking about life. Yes, in moderation it is liberating to completely immerse yourself in your superficial side. At some point, though, you must realize that life is bigger than looks. If dating a guy who is as two-dimensional as they come adds some dimension to your life, then that is a good thing. You got a chance to see how the other half lived, and let's face it, it sucked.

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