...the choice to remain single is but a rationalization of their inability to deal with demands of a relationship: "I need my space," I never found the right person,"My work consumes all my energy." Often those who choose singleness have run repeatedly into the same problems and pains. Wounds are reopened and not healed; again & again they find themselves stuck in the same place.
And so they decide, perhaps rightly, that they are better off alone. They choose to make the best of the situation, in a cultural climate that at least tolerates their singleness. I see the coming years as happier ones for those who choose to remain single & more productive ones for those who see single-hood as the stage in their growth, a passage en route to marriage. I see singleness in a limited framework, as an opportunity to find & establish oneself at whatever stage of life.
And so they decide, perhaps rightly, that they are better off alone. They choose to make the best of the situation, in a cultural climate that at least tolerates their singleness. I see the coming years as happier ones for those who choose to remain single & more productive ones for those who see single-hood as the stage in their growth, a passage en route to marriage. I see singleness in a limited framework, as an opportunity to find & establish oneself at whatever stage of life.
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