“Dating” is a text piece about dating today and how no one ever meets in person, it’s all online based and uses phone apps. The text piece looks at my own personal experiences with online dating and focuses on 5 individual people who I went on dates with or interacted with in a romantic way. The original text I wrote was too raw for me to exhibit, It was so personal that I would have felt uncomfortable, I know my piece is about vulnerability but I didn’t want the piece to be so straightforward. I mixed up all the words in each paragraph, the text is unreadable as no one can understand it but I wanted people to read the words and gather their own interpretation of the text and make up their own story, I’m showing my story and I know what I wrote so I’m still being vulnerable yet not so vulnerable that my entire love life is on show to the world.
Below you can read the piece for yourself;
“Dating”
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