"I'm not into politics, I'm into revolutions"

“I’m not into politics, I’m into revolutions.”

When TLN said that to me, he struck something serious.

Our date went quite well.

He is definitely nerdy, and a little awkward, but that was cool to me. We’re on different wavelengths as far as our outward personalities. TLN is a little soft-spoken and he speaks slowly, and I found myself intentionally slowing down to let him talk at his own pace.

I’m a very friendly person, especially when I meet someone new. I like to ask them questions and talk about them so I can learn and see what kind of person they are. Once I asked him something, he would take his time responding, and after he finished a sentence, I thought he was done, but he wasn’t. He really takes his time speaking and articulating his thoughts, which i found interesting. So I quickly learned to give him time with what he wanted to say and simply listen and let him kind of lead the conversation. I didn’t want to move too quickly from one topic to another because I was misinterpreting his way of communicating. I felt very fast-paced in relation to him, which was interesting to feel. I’ve never felt that before.

But our conversation went great. I really want to learn more about him. His love of computers far exceeds my understanding of them. He talked about all sorts of things in that realm I never even heard of. We talked about Reddit, and Japan, and how his parents are flight attendants so he has been able to travel abroad most of his life.

We both seem goal-oriented, but will move from thing to thing, maybe without finishing the first thing we set out to accomplish, haha. He talked to me about how he’s trying to get into meditation and some brainwave device. I wasn’t really clear on that part but he says studies have shown it helps people focus. I feel like TLN has a lot of knowledge about things I haven’t even thought about, haha, which I find very intriguing. 

I asked him if he was into politics and he gave me a look like he didn’t want to go into detail (maybe too soon to talk about with someone you don’t know), but after a while, he said “I’m not into politics, I’m into revolutions.” I still can’t get over that quote. It struck me so hard. It was such a profound thing for him to say, and I’m very interested in hearing more of his thoughts and ideas on that. You don’t hear stuff like that every day. Clearly, I’m dealing with someone intelligent and thoughtful. Thoughtful in the sense that he’s very in his thoughts. He told me about the Icelandic Revolution that happened in around 2010 in which the people wrote a new constitution and have a connected system on the internet. I need to do more research to fully understand what happened, but he's very interested in how technology shapes society and how it functions. It's very attractive that he's interested in that sort of thing.

Physically, I don’t know if I ever would’ve noticed him at a bar or anything. He’s not unattractive at all, just not my typical “type.” I did get the feeling he was attracted to me, based on the way he looked at me when I smiled, so that was nice.

I think he would like to go on a second date. I would too. I’m very intrigued. I love smart guys.

Something I should add is that I feel a little more comfortable with him than I do J2. I'm not quite sure why. I felt like TLN wanted to take his time and just talk as people. J2 rushed more and wanted to talk to me as a potential girlfriend. TLN made me feel a little safer. I still don't know him but that's just the first impressions I've gotten so far. We'll see what happens next time. I have a date with J2 on Wednesday, so we'll see how things go.