What’s the craziest thing you’ve done to impress a girl?
After I met one of my friends, she asked me to teach her how to play a piano song. I had taken eight years of piano as a kid, but stopped playing for years. After she asked me for help, I started practicing piano again three times a week.
My friends also commented that I play the piano like a robot. When I was trying to impress her, I analyzed her favorite song one bar at a time, and determined if each bar was piano (soft), mezzo piano (medium soft), mezzo forte (medium loud) or forte (loud). After a lot of practice, my friends said that I no longer sounded like a robot. My psychologist mentioned this was an example when I used a strength (logic) to overcome a weakness (playing piano like a robot).
At one point, she asked me to pick her up from the airport. I gave away a pair of Flames tickets, because it was more important for me to be there for her (than it was for me to watch a hockey game).
At one point, she told me to “grow up, try new things and be more confident”. I moved out and bought a condo. I also tried a hip-hop class and an improvisation class. An improvisation class was stressful because I had to give up control. My instructor taught us the word “no” generally destroys a scene, so we were always taught to say “yes” to keep a scene going. It was extremely difficult to tell a story one word at a time, because you have no control over what your partner is going to say.
I’ve made some of the biggest changes in my life when I tried to impress a girl.