Duke Talks - Wealth VS Status

Ignoring the whole dance around of women saying it’s what’s inside that counts, or that it’s the connection between one another that cannot be described with word. No, it can be boiled down to one of two things. Wealth or Status. Now wealth is rather straight forward, it’s your money, how much you are actually worth, but status on the other hand can’t just be distilled into what you do for a living, what country club you are a part of, or even what class you are in. It’s all about the image of status. A guy that drives up in an Audi R8 may really not have the wealth or the job to support the car. Better yet, maybe the car is just leased, or even borrowed from a friend of his fathers. It’s the image the girl gets when she sees him drive up in the R8 that sticks in her brain. For first impressions the image of status is everything, but later in the dating process, image tends to need some back up.

When meeting a girl at the club it’s easy to act like you have the wealth and status that the girl is looking for, but there comes a problem once you have won her over enough to at least leave the club with you. Yes you can keep the image of your status up by instead of bringing her back to your place you bring her to a fancy hotel (that is if you some how did not convince her that going to her place would be better). At this point the two tend to cross over. You can still lie about your status in the world, as long as you have the money to back it up. With wealth you can pay your way into making those around you think you are important, like those whom have money tend to do. But with status you don’t need the money, take the founder of Napster, they guy went broke after Napster fell, but he could go into a club with not a dime, flash his name around and get some.

I know this entry has become a bit of a ramble-a-thon, but what I want you to learn from this is, that you can fake it from the start to get with a girl, but if you either really have to be smart or just have the money to back it up. All and all I believe wealth will always win this battle, though you will have a hard time differentiating the difference between those you like you for you, or those who like you for your bank account, it’s clear that money is what makes the world go round.

Random Entries: Mornings

 Normally a morning can be a great thing, it’s the beginning of the day, where anything can happen, but then again if your brother came home to visit, stayed up until 3 hours before you had to get to work, that morning can be just a bad experience. The smell of freshly brewed coffee filled the room and the heart attack of an alarm clock shocked my ears, I sprang from my bed in a sleep drunken phase. My cat was calling me for food as he normally did, and so I went to get him what he wanted. You know when you put your hand on the wall when you lean over so that you don’t fall. Well I attempted such a feet, where as my hand slipped from its position on the wall and broke through the laundry basket in my bathroom, the food I was giving my cat flew to cover as much ground as it could, and I face planted right into the side of my now broken laundry basket. Mornings are great when you wake up unconscious enough to face plant into a piece of furniture, brush yourself off and continue on with your already going well morning.

The Thinker

Everyone in this world has been single at one time or another, and for most of us it can be hard at times bridging the gap between being single and entering the dating world once more. The greatest thing that separates us from being single and dating someone is thinking instead of doing. There are truly only three stages of your relationship status, single, dating, married. When one is single, you can’t sit around thinking. I am currently single and I have thought millions of times on what I should do, should I go and talk to that girl? What would I say? What if she rejects me? What if she has a boyfriend? What if she is actually a he? Sitting there thinking got me nowhere, the only time I began to date as a thinker was when the girl made the first move, and trust me that doesn’t happen often (usually once a year for me). When one is single, you must only do one thing, and that is DO! Do Veronica, Ashlee, Michelle, and even do Elizabeth. I know I am coming off as a pig, but my point is if you don’t go do something (breaking the ice with a girl) you won’t get anything. After all the player that doesn’t take the shot, never scores. Thinking is for being in a marriage, when you have kids, then you can think, like was this the right choice, should I send my kids to private school, all the fun things…..