When you meet someone who blows you away!

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When you meet someone who blows you away!

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You ever met someone, regardless of gender, who just absolutely blows you away, and you walk away thinking, "Holy Shit"? I just met one.

I was interviewing her - I can't reveal her name or particulars of course, but I will tell you that she has completed degrees in biology and mathematics, and has taken electives in computer programming, psychobiology, music history, and more than one in physics. Her practical and theoretical knowledge of immunology, virology, mathematical biology, and biochemistry was excellent. She was on the school's fencing team, and participates in regular charities.

It's funny, thinking about it - I wouldn't say I was attracted to her, even though she was obviously intelligent, charming, and pretty. It's just the feeling one gets when they meet someone to whom, in different circumstances, they would have aspired to emulate. Or more precisely, it's perhaps that her skill set, educational background, and some other traits closely matches my own (although she's a reasonable number of years my junior).

But she was indeed compellingly interesting. When conducting an interview, it's not *always* easy to pick out the ones who are going to go far, who are going to be worth the money it takes to hire them, or who seem marked for success. But you do meet someone every so often that you cannot HELP but notice is a first-round draft pick in any crowd.


And yes, she was pretty by any standards you judge her against. 5'9, lissome, brunette. I'll wager single straight guys would definately form a queue if they could. ;)
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No, that's never happened. I'm in a relatively small town right now. The density of university grads is rather low, I usually have to dumb down my conversation.

I suspect many guys would be intimidated by her intelligence.
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Lagmonster wrote:You ever met someone, regardless of gender, who just absolutely blows you away, and you walk away thinking, "Holy Shit"? I just met one.
In terms of love? Yes. Recently. And it broke my heart. :(
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Even intelligent women do dumb choice,like falling in love with an asshole who`s gonna beat the living shit out of her. :roll:
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Do you mean blew you away as in beatiful, talented, just right for the job that you were holding interviews for ?

If in beauty then yes, a couple of years ago. Annoying thing was she was either lying about her age or she was 13 (i was 17 then)
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Maybe I'm very impressionable and get infatuated very easily , but it seems like it's about twice every year when I meet some girl/lady and almost immediately she totally impresses me and knocks my socks off with her qualities such as wit, dancing, singing, life experiences/wisdom, creativity, independence, sophistication, kindness, intelligence etc. and I feel like I'm "blown away" by it and at the time I think she's the greatest thing I ever saw.

I honestly think some people have that ability to make awesome first impressions and are skilled at displaying their best qualities very quickly. I mean, you can only get blown away by someone who is charming, articulate and self-confident.
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I met one at the beginning of this school year, and another a few weeks later. I'm in the process of starting to date the latter.
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Yes. We neded up engaged.
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