So this is something that may get some good responses.

Question:
If you could see today who the love of your life would be and if you would spend the rest of your life with that person, would you want to know?

Choices:
Absolutely
No Way

 

Ah heck, what kind of a poll is this. Who wouldn't want to know?.......besides a masochist?
Oh......yes I voted

Hmmm...I said No.

My thought, however, was what is it turned out to be nobody...that'd be a terrible thing to know for the rest of your life...

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Originally posted by BigBobby:
Hmmm...I said No.

My thought, however, was what is it turned out to be nobody...that'd be a terrible thing to know for the rest of your life...

Ouch.......but I can see your point. What I didn't read well enough also was "if you would spend the rest of your life with that person"
My thinking was that the love of my life would be the one that I do spend the rest of my life with....
And now I'm thinking back to my late teens and a woman I was with. That I sent back home to Indiana, I still kick myself in the butt for that one particularly for the reasons I dumped her....
Ah well, I still vote yes because if she was the one and I blew it, at least I'd know whether to keep any hope of finding "the one" and just become a gigolo instead.

I posted this because I am a hopeless romantic and I'm looking at some additional changes in the near future.

Personally, I would not want to know. What if you only sought out this person because that's the person that you were told you would be with? What if you were shown the wrong person and you were miserably in love?

On the other hand, what if that person was right for you in every way and you would not find them without being told who they are?

I obviously have way too much time on my hands. I need romance d@mn it!

Don, you as a gigolo . . . like in Deuce Bigelow? LMAO I know you have more class than that.

You are correct I couldn't do the gigolo thing.

But now, what's this about being shown the wrong person? I thought the love of your life would mean the right person.

Here's another thing to think about....would these questions you pose mean that there is only one person who could be the love of your life?

I guess I was over thinking on that part Don. So forget about that statement.

No worries.
So, would this still imply that there really is only one love of our lives? The more I think about this the more I would hope there can be more than one because there is a possibility that I would have ruined that a long time ago

I think it depends on the individual. Sure you can love more than one person but sometimes that love doesn't last or other things prevent you from being with that person. This would probably apply if someone's love dies unexpectedly or something.

For me, there is probably one person that is the love of my life . . . just haven't met them yet, or I just haven't realized it if I already know that person.

I totally agree about loving more than one person, well because there are a lot of "levels" of love. I do also believe that we can have more than one person that can be the love of our life, I just don't think that in this big old world that there is only one person that we can find real happiness with and be the yin to our yang, the jelly to our peanut butter, the.....you get the idea

Honestly, if there really was one "love of your life" wouldn't that be depressing? I mean...there's billions of people on this planet. Who's to say that your one true love didn't get born on the other side of the planet?

I tend to think in percentages. I could probably be with 0.1% of the world. Of them, maybe 10% would like me back. I'm gonna limit myself to looking in the NorthEast of the USA, which has a population of ~100 million. Soo....that means there's 10,000 "the ones" out there for me.

Heh...really? I think the biggest thing limiting me finding "the one" is that I just don't put the time into looking. I don't put the time into looking, however, because I just don't have the time. Bobby's getting older though...

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Originally posted by BigBobby:
I tend to think in percentages. I could probably be with 0.1% of the world. Of them, maybe 10% would like me back. I'm gonna limit myself to looking in the NorthEast of the USA, which has a population of ~100 million. Soo....that means there's 10,000 "the ones" out there for me.

Wow!! What a romantic.

Well..."the one" for me *would* think that's romantic thank you very much

There's girl robots too...

And I'm sure you would sweep them off their...wheels?

I had to vote no here....
This whole thing would mean that my future is already determined and I have no say or part in creating it or shaping it....
And what if I want ot spend the rest of my life alone.....
Finding out that someone would interfere in that would bite...No Thanks....