My weekends had turned into the same bar with the same faces. Somewhere along the way I'd optimized myself out of meeting anyone at all. It's hard to stay hopeful when your best match of the month is a crypto bot. My journal's January page bluntly told me to find Asian Women and the matches actually read my profile, which was new. Turns out I was never the problem — the pond was. It's a relief to write a paragraph like this without a single complaint in it.