I have nothing against couples. Some of my friends are the best couples ever (or so is the belief). Since I have personally been on both sides, I have to say, that being single is the winner!
Let’s see why… having a partner can be so amazing! Just think of all the things that you do when you have a guy (or a gal)…
You can talk incessantly with your partner… how your day has been, what you did, what you said to your best friend, how you bitched about that ‘bitch’, what time you woke up, what ‘mummy’ made for lunch… *yawns* …’can you like please stop?’
Or you can tell your partner 1440 times in a day how much you love him/her (that’s the no. of mins in a day, by the way)
Or you can tell your friends that you already have plans for the day… which turns out to be going for a movie with your partner… no, no…that’s nothing to debate about. Even if you’ve just spent 8 hours with your partner in the college already. And when your friend cries and threatens your friendship, if you don’t go out with her that very minute… you agree instantly… and then friend, committed friend and committed friend’s partner go on a ’sort of dates’.
What the hell am I driving at? Only this… of all the lovely couples I know, not one has a sense of individuality!
For instance, You just missed your train… what the heck do you do? Check on the next train and get tickets?… heck, no! call your boyfriend… ‘Honey! I just missed my train… sniff…what should I do?’
‘Sweety, find out about the next one & get on it.’
And then you check up and get onto the next train
Or… you have to fill in a form and choose between 2 subjects…and you don’t know what to choose… simple… (you guessed it!)… ‘Honey, should I take up subject A or B?’
Here, the situation is not akin to the train problem. Our dear ‘Honey’ isnt even in our stream and to him both A & B are like Martians…aliens I mean.
(oh, his reply was somewhere around, we’ll check up the syllabus & decide)
Or… ‘I have to go to college and give a presentation’… ‘Sweety , I love you so much… I’ll be a nut and sit through your presentation’… (even though I have office (do you now?))
I really am not questioning (or mocking) anyone’s love or their relationships. What I’m trying to find out is… is it required on one’s part to lose your complete sense as a person simply because you want to be dedicated to someone? How dependent can you grow (& be proud of it) on another? To the extent where what your partner says is the ultimate truth?
I do not see this as the perfect couple. Ideal love is not this way, when I see it. To be in a relationship… means reveling in each others company, seeking comfort in each others arms… but not at the cost of wiping out your own self from it. Forget that, hell! It doesn’t mean you have to act dumb and pretend you cant think on you own!
Being emotionally involved is one thing, but to have your brains sucked out like that! If you still go onto glorify such a relationship… I’m all for being single!
