Being single!

I live in a world where marriage is function of age and not a function of love, maturity and other such big things. So at the age of 29 when most of my friends, colleagues, former girlfriends and random people are married or seeing someone I have decided to be single (and not to mingle). I call it by a choice by choice but others say it is my default mode because I can never be happy with what I have or that I have unrealistic expectations. As you, my regular readers would know (who I think are 4; including me) I have recently changed my job and moved to a new city. In my book new city means meeting new people and meeting new people means, well it means nothing actually because I am not a people person.

For the uninformed there are 4 kinds of guys you will meet in a washroom when you go to pee. First one is the kinds who looks down at his willy I guess hoping it would magically grow. Second kinds looks up for some reason which I can only assume is inability/shame to look at his own willy. Third kind is the one who looks at the wall in front of him and pees all over himself and his shoes. Fourth is dangerous kinds who peeps over the urinal wall to take part in a dick measuring contest in which he is the only willing participant. Sometimes I ask this question to myself when I am looking at the wall in front of me "is it really so bad to be single at my age and why are my pants wet?". What really inspired me to write about this is a recent event where my new colleagues asked me if I have a girlfriend and when I said no they all looked at me as if I had suddenly transformed in to the Devil's sidekick.

While I am not entirely free from the charge of having high expectations let me still ask you, is it really so bad to expect someone who shares something in common with you? Let me tell you a bit about myself so you can be the judge of it. I read (no offense to anyone but 50 Shades of Grey isn't really reading), I write (mostly includes my colleagues resignation letters and about people) and I barely watch TV and when I do its football. I also have a nasty habit of expecting things to go my way. Always!! That's me in a nutshell. So you can say I am not really interesting kinds in a general sense but I can talk a lot, which again is a problem because I only talk to people I like. So you see I am stuck in a situation where I talk a lot to people I like but I am not a people person so I barely talk to new people, so they assume I am a snob and then they don't talk to me so we never come to discover each other. In such a way many a love stories have died before they were created and many children (one of whom could have found the cure for cancer) never saw the light of the day. Tragic? Yes!! Regrets? Maybe..

So when I have a lot of free time on my hand I bother people by asking them what they think are the advantages of being single. I know in my mind that most of them are telling lies to make themselves feel better but I like to hear what people think about something. So I shall list a few of the interesting ones I have come across so far. In one single guy's opinion you can do what ever you want (I hope there was no innuendo involved and he meant what he said). Someone said that when you are single you are open to possibilities, which I assume means when you are seeing someone there are no possibilities of falling in love with something new about the one you are currently with. Someone said saving on money and you get to watch your choice of TV program which I wholeheartedly agree with and support. Someone also said your free time is "my time" where you can do what you want without the thought of what your significant other or someone like that will think of it. I didn't dare to ask what are the disadvantages of being single because I am perfectly aware of them (obviously my biggest concern due to me being single is what the stewards think of me when I tell them I want a table for one).            

Of course at my age (I am getting past the marriageable age apparently) and the place where I live in most of the girls whom I like and are in my age group are either taken or married or weird or figment of my imagination. Very rarely you find someone who is may be younger or older than you are and you still get along with them like there is no significant age gap. When I was in college and I used see pretty girls with average looking guys I would always assume the guy must be rich to have such a pretty girlfriend but as I grew older I also realized that if you are not rich you can still get a girl to like you by being an interesting guy who can make a her laugh (internet would have you believe otherwise). So in my case not being rich or charming or good looking works against me. Also if someone does really like me I am dumb enough to live a lifetime and never realize that this person liked me. I literally need them to tell me so and I don't know any girl who takes the first step. Now having realized what my limitations are I have decided to voluntarily retire from the dating game which I hope will lead to many girls crying in agony of not having known me when I was still available (my mind is a fertile breeding ground for such imaginative thinking).  

But at this point think I would not have it in any other way. I am in love with my books and I live the lives and see the world through the experiences of the thousands of characters I read about in them. I am in love with writing as it lets me unwind after looking at massive spreadsheets and endless to-do lists during my 12 hour workday. I am in love with walking around the unknown corners of this new city to discover its beauty in all its length and breadth. If a person comes along during my journey and I end up liking them then may be I too will be open to possibilities and will start becoming a happy memory in their mind.