https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/soulmates/ Recent content in Soulmates on A Geek's Life Hugo en Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:45:47 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2009/11/26/right-girl-right-time-wrong-context-or-not/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:45:47 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2009/11/26/right-girl-right-time-wrong-context-or-not/ <p><em>The following is an attempt to be coherent at 3.45am. If the logic is fuzzy, the imagery abstruse and the conclusions bother on the insane, blame it on reading <a href="http://www.gladwell.com/">Malcolm Gladwell</a> into the wee hours of the morning!</em></p> <p>In response to <a href="https://archive.rustgeek.me/2009/03/16/finally-the-truth-about-di/">my rant/ sobfest in March</a> about losing my friend Di, <a href="http://afrogeekchic.wordpress.com/">LoloBloggs</a> pointed me to a post in which she argued that the <a href="http://afrogeekchic.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/right-girl-wrong-time-wrong-argument/">right girl, wrong time argument</a> was merely an excuse to prime women up for the inevitable future break up. Whilst that may be true in some situations, in one of those <em>not-so random</em> brain waves, it crossed my mind that the rightness or wrongness of the argument was peripheral to the fact that it fit the observed data for a reason - it is pragmatic!  A further thought was a what-if, <em>what if</em> there exists a third dimension that when coupled with the right person and the right time serves as a useful predictor of how likely a person-connection is likely to proceed beyond the realms of casual acquaintance-ship? I would like to suggest that that third dimension is that of <em>context</em>.</p>