The Art of Stalking: Part II

Stalk  /stȯk/ : To follow and/or spy on someone you have feelings for. Those feelings need not be of a kind and loving nature. People who stalk are usually obsessed with the stalkee.

It is interesting that stalking is a huge part of dating. It sounds creepy, but you all know you do it. With Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, Blogs and Twitter it has become more than easy to check out that guy in your English class who is too hipster for his own good. But you still think he's hot because he wears gingham-collared shirts and black skinny ties, listened to Imagine Dragons before you even knew who they were, uses the Nashville filter on his Instagrams of him playing with his nieces, has the most creative hashtags (#cantwaittobeadad), and supports Jef Holm and People Water. 

My Story

I was dating a boy again who I had dated about six months earlier. We had met in one of my classes and would walk to our next class together afterwords. We stopped dating and both moved on to the next good thing that came up.

When we started dating again, he told me the most interesting story...

He met a girl a few months after we parted ways the first time, and started dating her. A few weeks in, she started to be really clingy and needy-- which no one is a fan of. He decided he needed to break up with her so they went on a drive.

In her hopes to be "cute" she told him that before they had ever met she would follow him from one of his classes. "You were walking with another girl and would have the most intelligent conversations. I thought you were so cute."

He did not think this was entirely flattering, but a little stalkerish. Maybe if they had gotten married later she could have been like, "Husband- I used to follow you and I thought you were so cute before I even knew you" and that could have cute potential. 

Because of her 'cute stalking', he didn't have the guts to break up with her that night. 

He told me this story, and immediately I said, "She was stalking us, huh! We were the ones that she followed!" We both laughed and gave ourselves a nice pat on the back for engaging in such intelligent conversation that apparently catches the eye of our fellow peers.