GenQ - For the not so straight individual

My girlfriend works at Skycity Adelaide (which, for those who don’t know, is a casino), so I often find myself in there waiting for her to finish work. Being with a dealer made me think about gambling – how much do we gamble in our own lives… we may not do it in a casino like the people I see at my girlfriend’s work, but we still do it to a degree.

Just how much do we put on the line every time we start a new relationship? For a start, we are going out on a limb, hoping the other person will catch us. We are taking a chance on someone we barely know, hoping they might be the one.

Sometimes you get lucky; sometimes you ‘luck out’ … either way, at the end of the day you have taken a chance. That’s what gambling’s all about. It’s not about winning or losing, it’s about the potential; it’s thrill of putting everything on the line for the chance to win big.

I also got to thinking about how much of a leap of faith I had taking a chance with Victoria. I literally had to make a choice between the past and the future, between happiness and misery. Future won out and in the end I am glad I made the right choice. I took a chance and won big for the first time in my life.

All gambling is a risk of some sort and, as with anything in life, you have to be careful about how and what you do and who you do it with. For instance, I met my girlfriend on an online dating site called Gaydar Girls. Making the commitment to meet in real life in itself is taking a chance which could potentially put you at risk, you just never know with the internet. This time I just happened to be lucky that she wasn’t a psycho and almost four months on, I am very grateful that websites like GDG exist. For if it wasn’t for GDG I’m not sure I would have found a good partner at all, and had I not gotten together with Victoria, I may have ended up with my ex who I was with for only three short months over two years ago. That isn’t what I call progress, and I’m all about progress and moving forward.

As I said before, I am glad I made the right decision and took a chance with Victoria being a decent person and that my endeavors to find a lovely girlfriend were not all in vain. While I would advise you all to exercise caution in meeting people off the internet with the intention of getting together with them, either for a night or for long term, in the end, sometime you just never know were taking that chance could take you!

Follow your heart and be true to yourself, trust your instincts, if something doesn’t feel right…try to fix it or get out of it. There are not many things in life that you can’t uncommit yourself to and above all enjoy your life and your partner while you have them and don’t forget to take chances in life, you may regret it if you don’t.

Picture courtesy of the awesome that is Vicki Ferguson.

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