I am so sick of people looking at me as if I’m insane when I tell them that I’m not dating anyone and I’m not looking to date anyone. It’s not as if the entirety of my worth if directly based on whether or not I’m in a relationship with someone. Pop culture does nothing more than reinforce this notion. TV shows are medical/teen/law dramas that consist of hot boys kissing hot girls. Bands and singers drone on and on about breakups and love and being with that special someone and not being able to breathe without them!. And dating shows! URGH, dating shows do nothing more than send one big subliminal message that is basically telling the audience that if you’re not currently in a relationship then your life is devoid of meaning and you should just sit home and watch this show because you are unfit for real life!

I think that people who buy into the opinion on romance in popular Western culture are forgetting that culture isn’t something external to the human condition or human genetic imperatives. We care so much about gettin’ it on with other people because that is a large part of our species’ genetic imperative! It’s only natural that so much
of our popular culture would reflect this desire. It always has, for basically all of recorded history, and it probably will for time to come.

That being said, of COURSE it is possible to be single and happy. I am! I
feel like oftentimes people want to be in a relationship just so they
can be in a relationship. Which is maybe not the best reason to be in a
relationship! I mean, there are better reasons. Like makin’ out. Makin’
out is pretty fun. I need too do it more often I think, lol.