Maybe I am just crazy, but is anyone else motivated to go to activities out of the sheer fear that maybe your magic moment was scheduled to happen tonight, and that if you don't go, you will miss it and be single forever? Of course this has happened for me pretty much zero times. I think I've only ever been asked out at an activity a handful of times...like once a year or so this will happen...but it is probably not even necessarily because I went to THAT fhe or THAT ward prayer (or maybe it is, who knows). In any case, none of those dates amounted to much.
So why do we convince ourselves that we will meet our future spouse based on the events of one activity? I blame the media! In the musical West Side Story, Tony and Maria meet at that dance. What if one of them was sick and didn't go? Then the greatest love story of all time would have never happened! What if Jack did not win his Titanic ticket in the poker game...or did, but on his run to the boat was tripped and missed the boat pulling away? Sure, he would have probably lived longer, but once again the greatest love story of all time would have never happened! I really think this is what motivates me (and motivates someone else, too, hopefully, or else I will probably feel like a crazy person) to go to activities...this off-chance that maybe at a munch and mingle, my eyes will lock with my very own Jack or Tony over a heaping pile of Hawaiian Haystacks and the greatest love of all time will be born!
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