Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

I read this yesterday (read it first to understand the rest of this post). A fleeting AWWW moment later, I promptly came up with better reasons for people to ‘date a girl who reads’.

Date a girl who reads. The one who always has a book in hand. If you’re a poor conversationalist, as most people tend to be, you’ll always have a topic to start with. She’s the one with the glasses, the one whose face you usually find buried in her latest literary acquisition. She’ll either be too short-sighted or too preoccupied to notice the details of your unsightly face. Date a girl who reads. All her idols are fictional and she sets low standards for real people. She won’t dump you; she’ll accept your numerous shortcomings with resignation rather than disappointment. Date a girl who reads. You’ll never be able to match up to Mr. Darcy or James Potter or George Kirrin. You don’t have to work on impressing her, she won’t expect to be impressed.

When you’re showering her with the inanities of your life, she’ll be drifting away into beautiful imagined worlds within her head. She’ll look forward to such opportunities and not tire of your chatter as most people are, I’m sure, wont to do. Date a girl who reads. She is, in all likelihood, sufficiently intelligent to earn a living of her own and might even support you when your inadequacies lead you to bankruptcy. Find the mousy creature ignoring the crowd at the bus-stop. She won’t bother you during the football world cup because she’ll be on her couch, grabbing the little bit of quality nuisance-free reading time that has come her way.

Even better, date a girl who cooks.

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