Mini Motivation #79 - Playing bad matchmaker

So last night was fun, not only because we had an engaging crowd at the 100degrees event, or that senior members of the #teammalaysia came to support, despite their busy schedules and crazy traffic. The part about community events that I enjoyed the most, and frankly haven’t had for a long time, was the “after-party” - where you grab a few friends, new and old, and just had unedited, fun conversation over food.

And because of a shall-not-to-be-named Steemian, let’s call him Austin, was chatting with me a few days earlier about dating as an introverted guy (read this post for 53 tips), and there was a single girl (hmph, let’s call her Olive) sitting at our table, I decided to play a (bad) matchmaker.

Maybe I understood Austin’s position, because I used to be the shy guy when it came to dating, that the initial sparks of connections with a total stranger was usually the hardest to jumpstart, let alone a pretty stranger. Or just my bad attempt of trying to be his wing man. Frankly, kinda thinking about it, it could be totally because of the high from me speaking on stage earlier that night too.

So I poked fun, made humorous remarks, teased the both of them (which I hope they were cool), because if there’s one thing I know that connect people better than any other form of substance abuse, is laughter. And because I shun tradition or any “old-way” of doing things, getting Olive’s number for Austin was as simple as me putting her on the spot, trying to make her blush, and setting an instant quick date was pushing Austin to walk her to her car while getting the rest of the group of f*ck off.

Austin was blushing a lot throughout the late supper (which I suspect at one point maybe be my last with him) with the barrage of teases we were throwing at him, probably with me leading the attacks. I checked in with him later in the night if he was cool with it (and if we’re still friends, haha!), and he seemed genuinely cool with it. Was I successful in setting them up? Well, it’s up to them now, because that’s only so much a bad matchmaker could do.

Oh yeah, I did a quick check with Olive too, and she's cool. So I'm not that bad after all…

In life, when we’re alone, sometimes we lack the courage to take the first steps, even when we know it leads us towards the things we want. Having the support of others definitely will help push things along, which was what I tried to be last night. Over the years, many had given me such support, and I credit much of my success to them, and like my Ma had always reminded me - pay it forward. Sometimes when you don’t know how to help, I guess injecting humour and putting smiles on people’s face is the way to go.

Oh yeah, on that note, do you have any odd/bad matchmaking experience to share?

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