10.Get more Done.
Let's be honest, the time spent calling and solving issues with your “pooky” was an extra 4 hours that could have been spent reading one of the books on your Must Read list or becoming fluent in Spanish or reading your Bible or...
9.You'll never be Unequally Yoked.
Worrying about someone else's soul can be the cause of many ulcers and sleepless nights. Enjoy peace and rest. Have your angel cake and eat it to.
8. No Uncomfortable Relationship Questions.
Once you start a romantic relationship, its discovery by friends and family is imminent, once that happens you lose all individual person-hood. Every other question is: “How is [your significant other] doing?” Try hesitating with this answer for 5 seconds and the deeper questions become out about the health of your relationship. And we all know you're not going to tell them to mind their own business, so you will just have to resign yourself to feeling awkward for just being you.
7. No one Tracking Your Every Move
Feel that metal thing strapped around your ankle? Time to check in: every hour on the hour and learn to start feeling guilty for diverting from the set schedule to get an ice cream cone 2 minutes from your place. “No one's gonna track me,” you say, checking your fancy touch screen to read “5 Missed Calls, 2 New Voice Messages and 20 New Text Messages.” First Message: “Just saw you pass by, I happen to be in the neighborhood.” You have been warned.
6. Save Money
Other than drain your energy, self identity and “you-time” (as if that wasn't enough), relationships will cost you more money the longer you stay in them. Everything doubles for a couple: a $10 visit to the cinema becomes a $20 movie date (not including the dinner which follows), a lovely individual meal for $20 becomes a $40 meal for two, a $40 shopping trip becomes an $80 disappointment...and so it goes until you end up relocating under the nearest bridge—and even then you have to share your box.
5. Keep your Friends
Even in the event that the one for which your soul repines does not have a controlling or jealous bone in their body, you will inevitably deal with the issue of how little time you spend together. The civilized world we find ourselves in requires hard work and long hours at the job, school or booth. Of the small sliver of time the slave masters of this age give you, you regularly have to choose between your buds and your Beloved as to who matters more. Seeing that you will not likely be waking up to your buds everyday for the rest of your life...the answer is made for you.
4. Stay Competitive and Keep the weight Off
Researchers and scientists have been boggled by the stats behind obesity for years, while everyone on the street has forever known the reasons behind it. Simply put: we look our best to snag a mate, but once snagged, complacency sets in and folks that spent 50 hrs + in the gym, find themselves content to lift the television remote and belly press a box Rocher Chocolates.
3. Constant Emotional Peace
When you bring a relationship into your life, you are essentially bringing in a person to interfere with the well-structured peace of it and either has as much or more problems than you do. The benefit of your problems is that you have had your entire life to deal with and understand them. For all you know, you will now be multiplying that times 2 to start understanding this person that is essentially a stranger to you.
2. No Creepy/Mean/Spiteful/Crazy In-laws to ask you hard financial questions and make Hell look like a decent option.
'Nuff Said
1. Be More Holy & Closer to God
Both Jesus: the Christ and Son of God and the Apostle Paul suggested that those that have the fortitude to be single should be (Matthew 19:11 and 1 Corinthians 7:1). You cannot argue with that.
And there you have it! Enjoy this beautiful thing call single life, or as I like to call it, the favor of the Most High.
Hi Jean-Marc,
ReplyDeleteWith all due respect, this blog needs to be balanced with another perspective, even if this was meant to have a somewhat humorous tone. Her are my thoughts:
Please keep in mind that the gift of singleness is rare and is accompanied by a special grace in the area of sexual temptation - men or women with the gift of singleness will not be as easily tempted as those who are called to marriage. (1 Cor. 7) History has also testified that most Christian men DO NOT have this gift.
Having said that, if you know you DO NOT have the gift of singleness, failing to prepare your heart and life NOW for the calling of marriage in God's timing is a neglect of responsibly answering God's call on your life. It is simply not an option in God's eyes for Christian men or women to "opt" for singleness if all of the physical signs are telling them they were made for marriage.
If you do not have the gift of singleness, but were made for marriage, you will simply not grow as close to God by staying single as you would by marrying. Marriage reveals our innermost failures, and has been the primary way of teaching most people throughout history how to love one another as Christ loved the church.
Again, this blog may have been meant to be taken in a lighter tone, but the balanced truth still needs to be said so Christ is not misrepresented.
A great yet challenging article to consider:
http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0001244.cfm
With love,
Brian
Good Point. Thank You for Reading
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