nice guys, first

When I say with complete honesty, "Well, I wouldn't mind going out with X. He's really nice!", more often than not my girlfriends think I'm kidding, and with blatant astonishment they unfailingly say, "No way!"

I think "niceness" is pretty darn underrated. After years of wallowing in a Dating Desert and being told over and over, "You're just too choosy!", I think it's time I corrected some misconceptions.

I don't believe I'm selling myself short by saying I seriously wouldn't mind dating somebody nice, who'll understand when I need to be selfish and on my own and whose niceness is so overwhelmingly incomprehensible that it leaves me stunned.

Yes. I would like to be stunned, swept off my feet, in constant awe. And why not by "niceness" or "kindness" or "goodness"? There're few things more valuable. I should know to treasure them, since I have precious little of the abovementioned.