The Stare of Stares
This week's blog focuses on a subject almost everybody, of both genders, has encountered at some point or other during their school career. That focus is: The Stare of Stares.
First and foremost, The Stare of Stares has many names. Similar phrases and words I've come across are: The Look, gaping, and gawking. All these words refer to the same Stare of Stares.
Second, it's inevitable. Each of us has done it and continues to do it. That's the way it is. And that's why it's so hilarious....
To explain it simply, I'll illustrate an easily understood experience:
A guy is sitting with his friends in the cafeteria at his high school, or wherever else, when he suddenly spots a HOT girl out of the corner of his eye. He turns his head to get a full shot of the girl... and he stares. And he stares. And he stares. For however long, he simply cannot take his eye off this girl, and he gets completely lost in his emotions as he absorbs her that he loses all awareness of whatever is going on around him. He is completely tuned out to the world around him, and doesn't even notice when the girl sees him staring at her and, feeling totally awkward, smiles or waves or whatever, partly to break the ice and partly to tell him that she knows he's giving her the stare.
Now, I'm a guy and in my experience I've caught some girls giving me the Stare before (usually in a situation similar to this one, the, of course, the genders being flipped around). I also gotta admit that I too have given it (but usually I can catch myself just in time and can cut the Staring pretty quickly, though it is hard to). But as I've experienced this Stare of Stares, and as I've watched countless others doing it, I can't help but wonder why it is that humans do it.
It's really simple: it's just another symptom of being love-struck. The Stare of Stares has been around since the beginning of the human race. It has evolved with our emotional tendencies to the point that it has become etched in each of our brains. And because it has been scratched so deeply into our minds, it almost always goes unnoticed by the person doing it. It's really quite funny once you realize it....
This week's blog focuses on a subject almost everybody, of both genders, has encountered at some point or other during their school career. That focus is: The Stare of Stares.
First and foremost, The Stare of Stares has many names. Similar phrases and words I've come across are: The Look, gaping, and gawking. All these words refer to the same Stare of Stares.
Second, it's inevitable. Each of us has done it and continues to do it. That's the way it is. And that's why it's so hilarious....
To explain it simply, I'll illustrate an easily understood experience:
A guy is sitting with his friends in the cafeteria at his high school, or wherever else, when he suddenly spots a HOT girl out of the corner of his eye. He turns his head to get a full shot of the girl... and he stares. And he stares. And he stares. For however long, he simply cannot take his eye off this girl, and he gets completely lost in his emotions as he absorbs her that he loses all awareness of whatever is going on around him. He is completely tuned out to the world around him, and doesn't even notice when the girl sees him staring at her and, feeling totally awkward, smiles or waves or whatever, partly to break the ice and partly to tell him that she knows he's giving her the stare.
Now, I'm a guy and in my experience I've caught some girls giving me the Stare before (usually in a situation similar to this one, the, of course, the genders being flipped around). I also gotta admit that I too have given it (but usually I can catch myself just in time and can cut the Staring pretty quickly, though it is hard to). But as I've experienced this Stare of Stares, and as I've watched countless others doing it, I can't help but wonder why it is that humans do it.
It's really simple: it's just another symptom of being love-struck. The Stare of Stares has been around since the beginning of the human race. It has evolved with our emotional tendencies to the point that it has become etched in each of our brains. And because it has been scratched so deeply into our minds, it almost always goes unnoticed by the person doing it. It's really quite funny once you realize it....
posted by dr.scholl at 17:18
2 Comments:
Hello. I don't know who you are, and I have no idea if you know who I am, but I love this blog! Let me let you in on a little secret. The surest way to get a girl's attention (just short of doing cartwheels across the room and yelling her name), and in this case, the BEST way, is to make eye contact with her, HOLD IT AND NOT LOOK AWAY THE SECOND SHE LOOKS AT YOU, and then smile and look down like you're blushing. Ta Daaaa! You have just captured a girls heart (in many cases.) Another tip. If you like a girl, when you're talking to her make eye contact and actually interact when she says something. If you don't make eye contact and all you say is "uh-huh" then us girls tend to think you don't care about us much.
Lesson of the day: EYE CONTACT IS THE KEY!!!!!!!
huh....look at that weird comment I left oh so long ago. I'm so weird!
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