Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Singleness

My word of the day is 'single.' Why is it my word of the day? I recently noticed while mindlessly stalking people on Facebook that everyone, and I mean that in the teenage exageration sense of the word, is engaged/married. This makes it even more apparent to me that I'm single.
If you had talked to me last week about how I feel about singleness, you probably would have had to give me a hug and put up with tears on your shirt. I asked a friend last week if I would ever not be lonely. Her response was "The proper and true answer is that there will be a time when you're not lonely. However, when that times comes, I think that you will still feel it every once in a while, but not as painfully, and definitely not in the way you do now."
For today, at least, I've made my peace with being single. Would I be content with being single for the rest of my life? Absolutely not. Am I going to be depressed about it for the present? With the help of God and wonderful friends, no. Would I go on a date tonight if somebody asked me? You bet!

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