What Year Is It?

This time every year those who are not a part of the significant other crowd usually find themselves somewhat stressed out. There are two types of singles those screaming with desperation & those who are okay with being alone.Valentines day is a stressful holiday weather you are single, married, divorced, desperate, or indifferent. If you just happen to be single & okay with that, one of the very few in the world especially if you are a woman, this is extremely stressful, not for you but the people around you who can not comprehend how that can be. They do however try & project their stress on you . Why is it that people can't understand that you can be truly satisfied alone. Not everyone is a half that needs to be made whole. Not everyone has to buy his & hers matching bath towels. Some people are actually okay with themselves.
What they are not okay with is the looks they get from the couples, & the questions they are ask. "Why aren't you married?" "Don't you want to have children?" (Have these people never picked up an US Weekly & read about Angelina?) "Are you dating?" "What are you doing to find someone?" What would someone do if they(the independents) returned fire with some very rude invasive questions of their own. "What are you doing to get a promotion?" "When are you going to divorce the person you're cheating on?" "When are you going to get a life outside of your children & have a conversation with words that don't have to be whispered or spelled out?" Now that would be wrong of us to be so rude, yet it is perfectly fine for the married or couples to do so. What year is it again? Why are these archaic questions still being asked & why are people being judged by their dating status still. In a time when women can vote, abortion is legal & we have a black president, it is still not okay to be alone on Valentines day - what is that? Why are single people not celebrated for their Independence, & recognized for their accomplishments? Why do married people feel superior?
Funny how these stresses are only put on the people okay with being alone. Somehow the desperate are taken pity on probably because they live in a constant state of stress over their single hood. If they would just embrace it & relax they might just find some love after all. (read the secret or build a vision board or just get a life) These women who struggle with being alone and need to be "had at hello" are the exact ones still keeping us in the 1950's. So regardless if you are a couple, desperate or independent Valentines day is stressful what ever year it is!!!