Being Alone

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Lately I've been thinking a lot about relationships, my own carefully cultivated walls, and why I choose to be alone in this world.

Everything in life is a compromise of some sort or another. If you're in a relationship this means that you may have to waste Super Bowl Sunday at the in-laws celebrating the fourth wedding anniversary of a third cousin, but it also means you get to wake up next to someone special.

However, in my experience, the specialness doesn't last. People get bored with each other, tired of the repetition of dealing with the same idiosyncratic neurosis played ad infinitum.

Over time, some couples reduce themselves to open hatred and anger at one another, others resign themselves to submissive roles in the face of mortgage payments and keeping up appearances, and some just cling on because they are terrified of being alone.

Cynical? Probably.

But just remember, every cynic is someone who once believed.

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