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Word of the Day: Opposites attract
Children are often amazed when they learn how, with magnets, opposites attract.
I can remember playing for hours and hours with a piece of cardboard and a set of magnets.
I’d put one on top and the other below.
By manipulating the one below, I could make the one on the top move as if by magic.
Of course, it wasn’t magic.
When it comes to magnets, opposites attract.
Magnets were fun to play with, but as I got older – and I should mention here I was a late bloomer – I discovered girls.
Well, let me tell you that it was an eyeopener.
You may already know this; I’ve since discovered that most people do, but when it comes to people, they are just like magnets—opposites attract.
Opposites attract is the phenomenon whereby people are romantically attracted to others who are different than them.
It’s a very strange phenomenon.
People who are different from each other are often attracted to each other.
What the heck is up with that?
I mean, you’d think that people with similar likes and dislikes would be attracted to each other.
To a certain degree, that is true, I suppose.
People often try to find someone who is in some ways similar to themselves.
However, we tend to be turned off and rejected by someone too similar to ourselves.
On top of that, when it comes to romance, we are also turned off by our polar opposites.
There is, you see, a sweet spot concerning the level of attractiveness.
People are not magnets.
We are attracted to our opposites, but only if they are not our polar opposites.
They must be like us in some ways and unlike us in others.
Find the right combination, and you’re set for life.
Get the mixture wrong and eventually, you’ll be back to square one.
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