Single.

Something I have noticed since arriving in the United States is that everyone feels the need to have a boyfriend or girlfriend. What happened to independence and free will? Maybe it is just a Texas thing but it’s been playing on my mind since I have arrived, I have even pondered on writing a formal essay about it. I have watched from friend break up with a boyfriend and get together with another within a week, break up and get with another guy who she barely likes or does not find attractive. What happened to the soul mate? Why do girls or boys satisfy themselves with an okay model of what they want? Okay, we all dream of having Megan Fox as our girlfriend or Chace Crawford for our boyfriend but honestly, why settle for mediocrity? Some of the most influential women are independent, free thinkers, unhinged from the arm or control a man. Queen Elizabeth I for example saw England through many wars and never once married. The suffragettes, were amazing women, maybe got themselves killed but proved that they could find a place in the world for themselves without a man to help them. In this day and age where we find a near equality of status between men and women in the workplace, why do we seek to confine ourselves within a sphere of domestic expectancy? Maybe I sound like a suffragette myself, but think about it? Why not focus on yourself until you bump into the right person? You have your whole life to find the one, you don’t need to settle, nor do you need to entangle yourself when you are a free thinker, when you are intelligent, when you are a motivated person.