The Good Womanizer
There once was a man who was born to be a womanizer. Without trying he grew up tall and remarkably handsome. He had a natural talent for mixing sympathy and teasing, with a lot of interest and empathy for woman but also had a kind of untouchable and remote inner core–social dynamite. He had catholic tastes in girls and was attracted to sex. He even–please don’t judge him, it just happened–had a sort of sixth sense for someone’s inner vulnerabilities that could be exploited. All in all, he would have been a superlative womanizer and he knew it. Fortunately for him, he grew up a follower of Christ. Though he knew he could womanize and saw the appeal of doing something that he was very good at, it didn’t work with the burning vision God gave him of leading a beloved wife and children and grandchildren into the eternities. A natural talent for womanizing doesn’t just turn into a natural talent for being a husband, it turns out. There were bumps along the way. Sometimes when he thought of the great gift he had been born with, he had to laugh.
[Editor’s note: yes, this is weird even by our standards. Dunno, it just came to me]
IAW
March 31, 2021
At least he realized there was a disconnect between the two. The single weirdest thing I encountered at Ricks College and BYU were the LDS pick-up artists. Usually, it was just NCMO (non-committal make out, for the unaware), but these guys were able to get into the heads of women so well, they could make out with two or three at the same time, or even get engaged women to “cheat” (in a safe-ish NCMO LDS way, I guess). They saw no issues with this – they were good at it, so they were going to go for it. Everyone’s having fun, after all (except there was sometimes a vindictiveness’ to it; they seemed to relish getting committed females to bend the commitment a bit, or disrupting relationships that were on the verge of greater commitments).
the_archduke
March 31, 2021
I think it is a profound thought to recognize that what the world calls a talent, we may call a burden and vice versa.
Also it bears mentioning that despite being “born this way” we need not travel the obvious path in front of us. Just because we have natural inclinations to something does not mean we must pursue those inclinations. Even if (or probably especially if) the World tells us to. My natural inclination to pride or wrath should not be indulged in simply because I would be good at them.
Rozy
March 31, 2021
Sounds like he was in the process of overcoming the natural man and becoming a saint–oh that there were more (of both sexes) like him.
Britney S.
April 1, 2021
Seems okay, I think.