Single? Meet Anyone, Anytime, Anyplace

Only one word and one component of PERSONHOOD prevents anyone from meeting anyone at any time or any place under any circumstance: EGO!

Your ego is your worst enemy. So what must you do… right now? By an act of your own free will, give up your ego right now! Free yourself from the chains and imprisonment of it. It’s an illusion. So what if she or he walks away from you when you approach them? SO WHAT! Keep trying! Eventually you will succeed!

Always remember…

MY
EGO
IS
ONLY
AN

ILLUSION

And my Worst Enemy!!!

TEN WAYS TO MEET PEOPLE TO FIND LOVE

1. Join a few museums with a friend. At a certain membership level, they give tickets for their openings. You can split the costs. (Most museums will have about 3-5 openings per year, and often they include cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. It could be a great way to meet other singles, who have an interest in the art world like you do. And if you join 3 or 4 museums, you should be invited to about 12 or more openings. That will enhance your social life immensely).
2. Attend lectures at local bookstores.
3. Attend local charities and Goodwill benefits, raising money for their cause.
4. Volunteer for political organizations.
5. Look for single-day, weekend, and week-long vacation trips for singles.
6. Join dinner and cooking clubs.
7. Join hiking and biking groups.
8. If you live near the water, there are always rowing and canoeing groups available.
9. Reading groups are plentiful and easy to find.
10. Most churches offer many different activities, even if you aren’t religious.

All the best to you. Follow just a few of my ideas and you will be surprised at how many new people you are attracting into your life.

The Cure

My Aunt Katie was a great lady. Most of us have had someone in our lives or know of someone like her. She came to America from Italy when she was twenty years old. She and her husband, Uncle John, who had been a cook in the First World War, had no children, and there was a twenty-two-year age difference between her and her youngest sibling—my mother, Ida. As our grandparents had already passed on when my brother, sister, and I arrived, she became our titular Godmother, Grandmother, and even Fairy Godmother, for she and Uncle John owned a grocery store full of candy and ice cream. Heavenly bliss for any five-year-old.

Some say that the greatest sermon ever given was by Buddha, who, in response to requests to know the meaning of life, simply held up a flower without saying a word. My Aunt Katie gave all of us a better sermon than the one Buddha gave. At any given moment and whenever the moment struck her, often while cooking the most delicious breaded veal cutlets or chicken cacciatore, with her olive-oil-garlic-smelling fingers, she would grab any one of us by the cheek and say with her strong Sicilian accent, “Enjoy-a-life, enjoy-a-life!”

Not one of us at our young age knew what she meant, but heck, she was the “Queen of Ice Cream & Candy”, so as far as we were concerned Aunt Katie could say anything she damn well pleased and it was okay by us. Little did any of us know then that she was passing on wisdom to us on how fast life goes by and how beautiful life truly is.

And in her wisdom, to impress her message into every fiber of our beings, she went beyond even Buddha, as she included the tactile by pinching our cheeks whenever she said her timeless words of “enjoy-a-life”—just to be absolutely sure that her message sunk in. Thank You, Aunt Katie!