Date A Girl Who Experiments
Date a girl who experiments. Date a girl who spends her time in the lab instead of the club. Date the girl who was out all night because that one reaction just didn’t yield the results she expected. And so she found a new approach ran it again. And again. And again.
Find a girl who questions. You’ll know she does because she’s at a Space & Science museum, silently absorbing the facts of our universe, answering her queries on how the universe is expanding. You’ll find her at a Human Bodies exhibit, wholly mesmerized by our natural healing and defense mechanisms while appreciating the polymer preservation process keeping the bodies intact. She’s the one who quietly acknowledges studies showing evidence on the addictive properties of fast food, which are comparative to those of cocaine1. She’s always had a suspicion that there had to be a reason why some cannot simply “stop eating” those foods.
She’s the girl who prefers scientific journals to works of fiction. Her opinions are firmly grounded in fact; her decisions arrived upon via careful, logical introspection. Talk to her. Challenge her opinions. (But make sure you can back up your ideas first.) She might glare at you, but there is nothing she loves more than a good debate, a debate based on factual evidence.
Take her out to dinner.
Continue your discussion. Appreciate the passion behind her beliefs. Ask questions about her research and tell her about yours. Discuss goals and the envisioned impact of your work. Introduce new ideas and watch the wheels of her mind turn. Fuel her fire.
It is easy to date a girl who experiments. Her mind is rational, and conflicts are analyzed and approached with reason. If something isn’t working, she will find a new method and try again. She will keep trying because the end goal is worth it. She will tell you where she stands, how she feels. There is very little guesswork involved when dating a girl who experiments.
Don’t lie to her. If she experiments, she knows that failure is inevitable sometimes. Tell her the reasons for your failure. She will understand. More importantly, she will help you work past it. Instead of calling it a failure, she will say that you, like Edison, have simply found another method that does not work.
And when she fails, do the same for her.
If you find a girl who experiments, hold her close. When you find her awake at 2AM amidst piles of articles and equations, make her coffee. Sit down with her. Be a sounding board for her unproven theories and give her feedback. Be patient when you lose her to her work. She will always come back to you, because at this point, she knows that your support only strengthens her.
You will propose with a puzzle, something she will have to solve in order to know your purpose. Or maybe in the lab. Or over dinner, in the middle of yet another heated discussion on the impact of methane release due to global warming.
You will smile so hard and wonder just how much serotonin is released every time you are with her. Is that much even possible? There must be a reason for this happiness. You will have kids, and wonder how the recombination of your genes and hers will manifest itself. She will introduce them to the scientific method, and you will watch with pride as they learn the art of logic and reason. You will not grow old because at that point, science will have found an anti-aging mechanism and you will both take part in it. Just kidding. Maybe.
Date a girl who experiments, because you deserve it. You deserve a life filled with the thirst for knowledge, and the quest for truth. If you find it exhausting to tread with her into the depths of the unknown, then you are better off alone. If you feel that there is an infinite amount of life to be discovered, date a girl who experiments. You will never see the world in the same light again.
1http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-02/fatty-foods-addictive-as-cocaine-in-growing-body-of-science.html
Inspired by Date A Girl Who Reads and You Should Date An Illiterate Girl.
