Let’s Have Some Fun..Shall We?
The guy on the right doesn’t have a glass because AI decided, he doesn’t drink Haram stuff.
So! (insert a clap here — The YouTubers Way) 👏 , If you know anything about me then I think its quite clear how much of a curious person I am! like there’s nothing that passes by me that I don’t be like “Oooooh what’s that! and I’d go mess with it”.For example when I’m in the wild and there’s a plant and the guide would say, you can try it if you want! none of the people in the group would try it, but I’d be chewing down on it before he even finish his sentence, and would it taste disgusting? yes! but how can I live my life not knowing on a scale of 1–10 how disgusting it is 😂
Or like how I ate insects in Cambodia…was is it disgusting?..ummm Yes! but I literally saw the video again yesterday and I kept on smiling the entire time!
Because I looked at young me (I was 26) and I thought WHAT A BADASS! sitting there in the street eating that mixed platter of insects and doing a taste test on the gram😂 and I loved what I saw! and I felt like you know what..I feel like I’m ready to throw myself into a completely unfamiliar territory.
And for someone like me, that would be…….. 🥁🥁🥁
Meeting strangers aaaaand potentially…..DATING!
What!!! yup! you heard it right, and you heard it here first Haha!
you see I am 31, which by this age people would’ve already went on a hundred and billion dates, some are good, most are bad…but they all have got something out of it, and that is…STORIES — and what do I love? STORIES!
For the majority of my adult life, I was too busy fighting my demons that I never really had any interest or bothered with dating, I always felt like love comes when it comes, and the right person appears at the right time.
And that was correct! the experiences that I had, while nothing lasted and mostly they were short, however! those people did come into my life in an organic way, like just meeting someone somehow in real life, we got to know each other, sparks happen and the rest is for your imagination (because as I always say…this is a Halal friendly blog 🔞) Hahah!
*Mom & Dad if you read this, this is a joke okay *😂 ? you know that I sleep by 10pm, when do you think I have time for fun times if I sleep before they start? the rest of the day though…..
But I’ve never dated, like I’ve never met someone where we both met for the intention to date! how weird is that? I mean I find it weird not that I didn’t do that ever but the entire concept of meeting someone “to date” screams desperation (for me — not for you, I don’t care what you do) and I’ve never been desperate!
Like I’ve been alone on and off for a long time, and sometimes it does get lonely but I’ve never felt like OMG yes let me jump on Tinder, Bumble or Feetfinder 😂 😂.
You know let me give you a fun fact (or a creepy fact more like it), I had Tinder waaay too many years ago that I don’t even remember when, but I wasn’t even in Dubai and not even in Malaysia, which means I probably had it at that short period of time when I left Syria and stayed with Dad in Saudi for 6 months and I was bored out of my mind (around 10 years ago) yes I’m an ancient artifact.
Anyways, so I probably heard of Tinder and I was like…let me go see what that App is about, and I did and I matched with a guy that now at this moment I don’t remember anything about him!
but I remember that he was being sleezy and he made me feel bored, so what do I do? I go screenshot his picture and go run it on Google images reverse search 🤓! turns out the name that he have on Tinder is a fake name, so I go to his chat and be like:
Sup (Original Name) and he was shocked! and got angry and started cussing me! and that was the end of the conversation, and the end of my dating life on Tinder too 🗑
And I haven’t downloaded it again, or any of the other apps, because:
I’m old fashioned, like I don’t see how swiping right or left on someone and then we talk and then we meet, is a healthy start for a relationship, like it literally started based on physical appearance….how superficial — BOOOMER ALERT‼️🚨
What do people talk about? like I genuinely have absolutely NO CLUE what do people talk about on those dating apps, like how do you start a conversation? and what is it about anyways?
Back in my days (because I’m ancient) when we used to go on MSN messenger and Ebuddy 😂 people ask things like:
who’s your favorite artist? and what’s your horoscope?
LAAAAMEEEEEEEE!!!!! oh my goodness I’d rather join a convent and not have to go through those convos again, but thats like 15 years ago…so what do people talk about now? I assume it’d be something like this:
A: Hey..have you seen X show on Netflix.
B: No…is it good?
A: Yeah it’s really good, would you like to come over and watch?
B: OMW!
…..(Netflix and chill happens in the background)
And thats folks how babies are being made nowadays 😂
But! we started this article on the premises of what? I need to throw myself into the unknown and I only chose meeting strangers and dating and not Knitting for example🤷🏽♀️, because I need to throw myself into a completely unchartered territory, as I’ve been challenging myself this year, whenever something feels like a comfort zone, I go crush it!
So dating is something WAAAAAAY out of my comfort zone, and thus..I shall do it!
However! I want to do it my way :) and that means…coming up with creative ways to meet strangers In real life! — sounds like a mission impossible at this day and age right? mmmmm…I don’t think so!
I think people like to repeat statements like parrots, so if I hear everyone around me saying meeting people in Dubai is hard, does that mean..this should be my experience too? I’d like to defy that theory :)
but before I tell you whats the action plan, let’s here take a pause and discuss something.
In the Arab world, we don’t really date…
the girl says hello, the guy falls in love, and that’s how babies are made 😂
So all of my friends who are already married now, none of them actually dated and experimented much before, they did fall in love, but its a very platonic kind of love, childish kind of love.
But Where is the craziness? where is the UNHINGED people? Where is the OMG that A-Hole made me pay for dinner?
(lets hope this won’t be the case with me — bruv…unless we are hanging out at Haji Ali Juice Center — I ain’t paying for you😂)
And somehow my Non-Arab friends, NO ONE IS DATING! like I may have one Gen-z’eer who’ is kind of active on the apps but even her stories are so unappealing that I’d NEVER consider going on dating apps, as the standards there are very low (you know it and I know it — so don’t get offended), and I’m just not interested in that, we need QUALITY PEOPLE.
And while for many they may be like….GASP! Lin is talking about dating!!!! yes yes shocker shocker 🙄….what do you want me to talk about? we’ve already covered life, traumas & natural disasters….this blog is about my life, and my life now is FUN! and I’m happy, and I love myself and might as well I go experiment.
So! (Clap again Youtubers Style) 👏 I came across a very amazing concept! it’s an app called “TimeLeft” that just got launched in Dubai..AND it basically takes your interests (introvert/extrovert, what do you like, what interests you..etc.) and it arranges for you a blind dinner with a group of 5 people that you don’t know who they are until you meet!
HOW COOL IS THAT! and you don’t even know the place! you just know the day and time of the dinner, and further details on where it will be, gets shared a day before only.
And how did I start this article? I said I want to meet strangers aaaaand potentially date! so this is the perfect setup! because I’m not looking for love am I?
I firmly believe that love comes when it should come (and I believe in divine connections), so I won’t go force it and I won’t go look for it! I just want to meet new people, experience talking to absolute strangers, make new friends who I don’t work with, who are not friends of friends, and who I absolutely have no clue who they are.
LIKE HOW EXCITING IS THAT!
And also I’ve been quite active lately, new workout spots, new resorts (God bless Privilee) and also I’m attending alot of events and fun things that I’ve never been to before, and I know that this is what they tell you, you should do, so you can meet potential husband/wife.
But hell no! I find it super uncool, going to a place on a mission to meet someone! I just want to have fun and I want to experience all aspects of life and I’ve never put myself in a place to meet strangers, maybe only when I travel solo, but why not here? Why I can’t just go to someone in the street and say:
Hi, do you want to be my friend?
Haha! you know what! maybe I’ll try that! but one step at a time, lets not go crazy here — first we do the dinner with strangers and then we start approaching people in the street like lunatics 😂
And will this be a fun experience or a traumatizing experience?…I got nooooo clue!
But what I know is, this year I’ve been through enough hardships, challenges and heartbreaks, and I just had enough!
So I decided for the rest of this year I’m giving myself a mental and emotional vacation! I want the remaining 3 months and a half to be all about fun! fun with friends, fun with family and fun with strangers! and anyone who will come to try and disrupt my peace, I’ll block them for now and unblock them on 1/1/2025.
LET THE GAMES COMMENCE! 🔥
