Where does it begin and where does it end?

Hello, my name is Jasmine and I would tell you about myself, but I don’t have to.

Why?

Because I’m just like you. My story is your story. I was born, I live, I work, I laugh, and at times, I feel alone.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a very happy person. There’s nothing more exciting to me than this “ride of life,” and at 25, I’ve lived a much more full life than most people my age.

But I’m living through this human experience like every other one of you, and we all feel it. The need to be close to someone else. The need to rely on someone and have someone rely on you. To share holidays and laughs and secrets.

To see them, and to be seen.

To fall in love.

I’m just like you—and don’t deny it, don’t run from it. Embrace it, because no one’s getting out of here alive. Love may be the most excruciating, beautiful, tragic, vulnerable noun/verb there is in existence, but it’s something we all go through because it’s who we are.

Well, at least, it’s who I am.

And this is my story. Where does it begin and where does it end?

I can’t possibly start with all the experiences that led me here. All the crushes I’ve had, all the smiles exchanged, all the sleepless nights spent wondering if he liked me. I have been loved, and not loved in return. I have loved, and his love was not returned.

Just like that, I'm here. Twenty-fives years old, single, and ready to mingle. I hear there's plenty of fish in the sea.

Follow me and my journey into dating, online and off.

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I joined a popular dating site on April 11, 2014 while working from home in my PJs in the middle of the afternoon, and although it has only been six days, I have so many stories can barely keep straight. So much has happened in such a short period of time, I honestly can't believe it.

I started this blog because I knew that it would be something I would want to document--the good and the bad--and it has proven itself to be very true. I haven't laughed and been so simultaneously confused in a long time.

Before I go any further, I will never give out any identifying information on myself or who I correspond with (no real names or screen names). That is not the purpose of this blog at all. 

This blog's purpose is to have the opportunity to reflect on things that are happening, explore myself and my interactions, and remember this time when I'm old and grey. 

Jas