Ted Mosby

Throughout our years, we come into many versions of the perfect guy. First it’s Prince Charming, who can do the waltz perfectly. Then it’s some teen heart throb, like Jason Priestly or Mark Paul Gosselaar. Then it’s the high school quarterback, etc. The guy I am currently pining after? Ted Mosby. *sigh*

Like Prince Charming, he’s fictional, but has all those qualities that us single girls are looking for. He has a full time job, is witty and charming, and has the best hair. The writers of “How I Met Your Mother” have done a great job creating the perfect guy that the modern, semi-grown up girls love.

Here’s the thing though, he’s the coolest guy yet goes season through season, looking for his perfect significant other. He has a fair number of dates, and a fair number of nights as the sexless innkeeper, but can’t quite seem to find the right person. Heck, since Robyn (one of the other characters on the show), he can’t find anyone to even date long term. And if Ted Mosby, the guy that all us twenty something girls want to date, can’t find the relationship, where does that leave the rest of us?

The funny thing is, despite the fact that Ted Mosby is a fictional character, we all have a Ted in our lives. And like the CBS Ted, our own Ted’s have charm, personality, looks and occasionally the hair, yet can’t seem to find the right girl. And like the CBS Ted and his co-stars, all parties are perfectly happy being platonic friends with our real life Ted’s. Mine sits next to me at work.

Ted Mosby is pretty much the perfect guy in my opinion. And since he’s still somehow single, there’s hope that someday he and I will randomly meet and live happily ever after. And if he and I are not destined to be, at least the show is prefaced by him telling his kids how he met their mother, which means there is a happy ending in there somewhere. And if Ted gets his happy ending, I’m willing to bet that most of us will too at some point. Perhaps if we all start trading our platonic real-life Ted’s. And until then, we have Monday nights.