As is pretty standard for a Sunday night, my fella Professa and myself were in a particular state of mind. It seemed that it was the perfect night and the perfect time to revisit our Sunday Sesh. As is the case, especially with this new batch, we got pretty chatty. I had just met a boy that night and the Professa is preparing to dig her way to visit one in China so we got to talkin about the fellas and came to the realization that all of us in H3Eaven tend to jump the gun… In just about any situation, no matter how well we pull it off, no matter how painfully cool we try and play it, we inevitably and involuntarily jump the gun whenever we meet boys. It’s not so much that we act intense or weird, it’s more just that if the boy were to ask us to go to dinner, we could honestly say without hesitation “you know, to be honest, I’m really a gun jumper and I’ve already looked ahead to our third date… we really wouldn’t last.” Or if someone wanted to hang out with you and your friends but you just aren’t feeling it, “Sir, I’m sorry but I already jumped the gun and I can just tell we’re not meant to be, we would never make it past our first fight.” Why go through the hassle and discomfort of silent or awkward dates? Jump the gun! Look ahead! I guarantee, and gun jumpers out there will agree with me, if people started to jump the gun more, they’d probably be more likely to avoid a relationship than to get sucked right in. Now, there are times where we can get a little too far ahead of the gun and pull something outrageous like say, deleting a number when we don’t get a response in a certain allotted amount of time, or being the first to make contact after a long silence when you’re 15 sheets to the wind two crazy nights in a row… but those are rare occasions, once in a blue moon occurrences… Anyway, we discussed our thoughts on jumping the gun and whether or not it is helpful.
Well, you know what? We came to the conclusion that yes, jumping the gun is helpful. If we weren’t gun jumpers, if we didn’t jump the gun every chance we got, we wouldn’t be looking to the future. We wouldn’t be thinking things through. Yes, I am a gun jumper and when I meet a boy I am going to jump the gun and think things through. If I can’t picture us together at the age of 70, still laughing, then I can’t picture us together at all. I am a gun jumper and I am damn proud of it.
