It's really no secret that my approach to dating and finding someone is... I guess unusual? Not to mention, it kind of makes it more of a challenge than it probably needs to be. For most guys, it's as simple as seeing some random girl in passing and going "She's hot/ cute, I want to go talk to her and ask her out". Me, I don't think that way. I never feel compelled at all to approach random girls in passing, heck, I don't even really pay attention to them unless they initiate contact with me (which is pretty much almost never).
I'm more attracted to a girl's personality, and that's just not something you can determine in passing, or even just by talking to them once or twice. I need a little more time to get to know a girl before I'd ever think "I'd like to go on a date with her". Even still, for a vast majority of girls, I never end up having that thought. You may say I'm "picky", but I feel like I know what I want in a person, I know what kind of girls I'd be best compatible with. I just never seem to encounter them (and when I do, they're not interested for one reason or another).
After I've gotten to know a girl enough, I automatically analyze us and try to figure out if we'd be a good match. I think about whether she's a good match for me, as well as whether I feel I'm a good match for her. Only a small handful have ever passed both those "tests". That's not to say I spend hours overanalyzing every girl I know; no, my brain kind of works like a computer, it just automatically processes this information, and I just know it.
I dunno. People on forums like this say "You're only 24, you're still young", but I really don't feel like I'm THAT young anymore. I'm getting up there in age, and I'd really like to have someone in my life, but I just can't accept the "normal" way guys find dates. I don't want to just ask out a bunch of random girls and hope one of them turns out to be awesome. I'd prefer something along the lines of "friends first" that progresses into something more, but apparently that's not very common at all? Eh. I don't even know how to "meet girls" to become friends with them.