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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 2624465" data-attributes="member: 5143">So, let me get this straight, if you wanted a really expensive car, and were jealous of other people who could afford it, you are unhappy?That's the way I look at it, women are ONE part of life.  I am reasonably frustrated at not having a gf right now.  Doesn't mean I'm lonely.  I have a bunch of friends that spend most of the weekend at my house doing stuff, I get invited to go places with them.  I wish I could have a gf, but that doesn't make me unhappy.  I AM happy, I could just be happier yet.  I don't think of happiness as binary.When you have 90% of the things in your life working the way you want them to, but the 10% eludes you, you still try to seek it out, but you don't disrupt the 90% of things in order to try to get that 10%, otherwise it's defeating the purpose.  In other words, if you are basically happy with a life of playing D&D, good for you, it may be hard to get a woman who is happy with that life, but why get rid of everything you like about life in order to get one more thing about life who may not even make you happier than you are now.Of course it's not FAIR, if life were fair it would mean that everything bad that happens to us happens because we deserve it.  It just IS, no big deal.  More women like sports than D&D.  But, I don't believe that inherently means that people who like D&D a lot are obviously wrong and need to change.  It IS societies fault, I don't believe the society we have now is caused by anything more than random chance and that what is socially acceptable 100 years from now will likely be completely different from now.Then again, you have to accept that random chance ended up with society the way it is.  I'm willing to accept that as a pretty big geek I have a couple of options when it comes to women: a) Do what I like in life, enjoy it and hope that I eventually run into someone who likes the same things I do, b) change to become a more desirable man for the opposite sex, losing things I like about life in the process, or c) forget about ever getting a womanI've already decided that one of the 3 will, in fact, be my fate for the rest of my life.  Right now, I'm sticking with A.  I have met 2 women already who accepted me the way I am, and I think there are more out there.  Just have to be patient.</blockquote>

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