Luci's bet: Multi-dimensionality induced compromises...

The origins of multi-dimensionality:
What's the difference between my army carpenter friend and my Lausanne-St Gall-London Investment banking, skiing, golfing, partying-like-there's-no-tomorrow friend...

In the current yuppie life, there is a struggle towards self-development: discover and enrich one's own personality...

"Yeah! Been there, done that!"

Lived in Asia? sure
Parachuting? love it
Been in Katmandu? who do you think I am?
Hate Charles de Gaulles airport? well, let's say I prefer London City, although there is a point for Sheremetyevo...
Tried golf? Yeah done it, while scuba diving in Mauritius...
Oh and by the way, I think Machu Pichu is better than Angkor Wat, but of course, you can't discount the mystical side of Uluru...

Every little modern mini-orgasm, every discovery we do - and can't we just do anything we want*? - arrogant high-potential that we are...

So, P, what does this have to do with love, coupling, mating, the works?

Well, the search for a soulmate is linked to our soul's expectations to find our counterpoint in another**... Those n-dimensions:
I want someone that pleases my mom
I want someone who could party with my college friends
I definitely want someone who can go to those fancy evenings I'll be invited to as a big shot in my professional life...
And most of all, I want someone who wants to develop themselves in the same way that I do...

And the different dimensions can take so many different directions:
You like India? I more of a China kind of guy...
You're very fond of Fajitas? I am more of a Chili con carne kind of guy...
...

I guess what I'm trying to say is***



And, oh yeah, I need a girl who can cope with my omnipresent geekiness...

As Adrien puts it: "Give it enough filters and you'll never find!"

That's when we started considering the comprises you have to do in order not to end up single until 50 and marrying a girl to our likings at this point: Hot, submissive, none to contradictive, able to run an household... Of course, having been single and workaholic until then, preferences tend to have changed!

The absolute horror, if you ask me: no family, no true equilibrium...

So what if, like a good friend of mine, you end up "choosing" a girl that doesn't fit your wild college days and the crazy partying that ensued... What if it actually were the best long-term compromise?

Until then, keep searching!

P, "definitely Winchester Cathedral..."

* except of course, take a couple of days off work...
** big time movie reference there, found it? No? I guess you couldn't be my soulmate, could you?
*** If I could programm Latex, this would be much more decent
PS: A big thank to the great sociologist Prof. Dr. Peter Gross for his input!