Boy Crazy!

As a girl walks into a public area, no matter how empty or packed, she starts scanning the area subconsciously looking for her next prey to [or would like to] flirt with. It's inevitable and natural; we look for the hottest person in the room, and that's it. Why do we do this? It's not like we imagine the scenario that he comes up to us and says something like, "Hey I saw you across the street and was taken so off guard by your beauty that I had to say hello." It's also very unlikely we'll approach them because let's get real, rejection is a very low probability but high severity.

So what is the point in being this boy crazy? Is it so we have a conversation to spark with our friends? How many of us know the conversation: "Look how cute that guy is," "Go talk to him!" "No are you kidding? No way. Not going to," "Why not? You look hot as hell," "No," "Ugh you're so lame," -end scene-.

We all know this because we've all been the friend who points him out or the friend that encourages the friend that points him out. But has any girl actually been the friend that says "Yeah, why not?" in this situation? If so, please leave a comment, because I'd love to meet the confident ladies who don't give a f**k.

Is this scenario the reason why girls my age keep obsessing over guys? Like holy sh*t this dude is hot, and what if he thinks I'm hot? But I don't want to ruin that thought with rejection, so I'll tell my friends instead of approaching him. We then have those few minutes in our head going crazy for a dude we've never met solely based on his aura.

I'm not saying being boy crazy is bad. Honestly I couldn't because I'm a victim of this craze. I can't help but admire pretty eyes or messy hair. It's a weakness of mine! I'm not afraid to say I am crazy and weak for men. They're good conversation starters for when you're out with friends, and they're good to look at when you have nothing to do (don't even get me started on people watching).

This week my friends and decided to banish this boy craze, and finally approach the guys. Before going full force and asking for the guy's number ourselves, we decided that if a friend pointed out an attractive guy, we'd happily give the guy their number. It's really funny, because I wasn't afraid at all to do this, and I assume it's because tthe severity of rejection wasn't going to hurt me. I yelled for the guy to come over, he had a conversation with us and he happily took my friends number. She got to spend a few minutes texting this guy [until finding him on Facebook after he said he doesn't have social media... and finding out he has a girlfriend]. Because we weren't afraid to bite the bullet for her, we weren't sitting in the restaurant listening to her talk about the guy, and she was able to cease all thoughts like, "What if?"

Why the f*ck do girls not do this more often? I dare you to try it.