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I’m Single…. And It’s Fine
This is quickly becoming what I’m going to remember as the year of the wedding. While I am confident that the Chinese calendar will not call it that, it’s already looking by years end almost all my friends will either be married or engaged.
Of the single friends left in my circle, well I’m about it. No relationships on the horizon, or pursuit intended, just me and the stack of books to work through with a never ending list of Netflix suggestions. No, I’m not done watching yet.
What’s remarkable to most I speak with, is that I’m very okay with it.
The… Problem?
The hardest part about being single, as your friends pair off and find love, is that they start to look at you strange. It is as if you being single is a degenerative disease, slowly you must be eroding under the sorrow of not being in a relationship.
Among the challenges of single life is that as friends pair off and find love they start to look at you strange. Your extended family begin to ask uncomfortable questions that remind you why you would choose to avoid reunions if you could. It is as if your singleness is a degenerative disease, they imagine that you are slowly eroding under the sorrow of not being in a relationship.
Being single is not a disease. It is not an abnormality of nature or a chronic…
