What happened
to old fashion romance? Cute dates? Asking parents permission to take a girl
out? Leaving room for Jesus while dancing? Where's it all gone?
Okay, so I regularly
get called ancient by my siblings,
baring in mind I'm yet to turn 20,
but I do think that our generation has lost some of the magic and cuteness
previous generations have had.
I think
that maybe we should bring back some of the cuter aspects of dating that our
parents and grandparents had. I'm sure most of us have heard the loved phrase “back
in my/our day we….” Well maybe they have a point. No, I'm definitely not saying
our parents are always right or always have a point when they use that phrase,
my mother uses it a lot when I complain about slow Wi-Fi, she quips me with “back
in my day you had to go to the library to do all your homework and if you
wanted to talk to your friends you’d have to visit them or write a letter….” I'm
not going to lie, I do tend to zone out when my mother flashes back to her
younger self and her real life struggles,
but when she talks about dates its pretty cute.
We should
actually ASK people out on dates. Stop asking to “hang out” or “if you're free
we could” or “I'm bored…” If you don’t ask, you don’t get. Do it. Seriously it
would be appreciated to be asked out on a date. Like come find me and be like “hey,
I was thinking we could go out for lunch and then take a trip to the history
museum because they have a new exhibition opening and I though we could go
check it out together.” YES.
I think a
guy should knock on the door and meet my parents. I think it would be cute. I'm
not saying it would have to be the first date because that is SO heavy, but I think
If we’d been dating a while and he picked me up and knocked on my door whilst I
came down the stairs, that would be cute.
Bring a
cute little gift. Doesn’t have to be big or fancy, a flower, my favourite
sweets, something cute. I'm not asking for something all the time but sometimes
it would be sweet.
Dressing up.
I feel like we have to be casual about everything. Its boring. I do NOT want to
dress up all the time but sometimes it would be fun. If you’re taking me out for
dinner, then lets both dress up. Let’s pretend we’re FANCY. Also we can take
some snazzy selfies.
Be a gent. Open
doors, push my seat in. pal, it’s the cutest things when guys do the whole “ladies
first…” NO not all the time but if we’re being cute go for it. I’ll totally
pretend I'm way to fragile to open the door my self.
I'm not a
fan of dancing with guys in clubs. Don’t get me wrong I love going out and
having fun but GRINDING with strangers is NOT my thing. So let’s bring back
classy dancing. Think movies like ‘The Notebook’ and 'HSM' rather than all that 'bump and
grind' business.
How about
we don’t sit on our phones? Let’s pretend other people don’t exist for a while.
Let’s talk. Lets flirt. Let’s ask questions. Let’s hold hands.
DO NOT
EXPECT SEX. Maybe we could end on a goodnight kiss. A hug at the door. It shouldn’t
always be an expectation. Its cuter. I promise.
I’ve been
on ONE date throughout my whole 19 years of living. By choice, I promise, I had
never wanted to go on a date before, but this time I did and it was SUPER cute.
We did all of the above (except the parents, he met my flatmate and shook his
hand *awwww*) and it was INCREDIBLE. There isn’t a single thing I would
change about it.
If you too want to be a little bit classic, and you agree with me feel free to follow me on twitter and instagram because I'm pretty cute sometimes, @chantelle_kiran.
Until next time, remember I've said it so it must be true....
Chantelle7
Song of the post: Classic - MKTO
