Could You Accurately Describe Yourself in Three Words?

She asked me on our first chat on a dating app

Pranshu "Maverick" Dwivedi
4 min readMay 2, 2022
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I hadn’t been active on the app for very long, I wasn’t quite looking to be in a relationship.

It didn’t help that I never looked good in a picture, so getting enough right swipes was always a challenge. Not that it was any easier to get a date in real life, to be honest.

I did find this incredibly intriguing profile of a girl that somehow made me swipe right, and secretly hope she would too.

It wasn’t that she had an extremely attractive picture of her or a description that had me interested — in fact, her picture barely showed her face or any other part of her for that matter.

It was a picture of her (presumably) looking away at the sunset in the distance. Her description didn’t say anything about her either. All it said was the following:

“We’ll see if we ever go on a date. But, here’s a challenge for you first — can you accurately describe yourself in just three words?”

Damn! This was hard. Three words that were going to be my first impression on a girl who I didn’t know, but was seemingly interested in — or at least interested in getting to know.

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Pranshu "Maverick" Dwivedi

Stay-at-home-dad who "retired" from a 12-year career in finance at the age of 35. Curious thinker with an opinion on nearly everything and is here to share it.