Single At Thirty

There's something to be said for being single.*
For making plans, and knowing they're going to be kept -- because you're the only one you're making them for.

There's something to be said for knowing that you truly are having the most fun possible -- because you have your pick of parties, guys, and activities.
For everyone around you offering up their plans on a silver platter, and all you need do, is pick.

There's something to be said for other people having a plan -- because it sucks to be the only person with one.

There's something to be said for knowing absolutely anything is possible.
Want to marry the best looking guy on campus? Just find him.
Want to mack it with a guy from every county? Just drop what you're doing and hop in the car.
Want to be happy? Just do whatever it is that makes you so.

It's as simple as that.
There's no one to stop you. No one to stand in your way.

Universal Truth Number Thirty
Girls just want to have fun... so that's exactly what they should be having.

And for every single girl out there, who thinks her life is no fun, I'm offering you the solution.... A good smack upside the head.
Get out there and have fun. The only person stopping your own happiness is yourself.

* I can write this without hesitation because I can also write; "there's something to be said for being in a relationship."
So don't start grumbling if you ARE in a relationship and cannot believe the things I'm writing.
I'm in a committed relationship, and would not change that for anything. Not because it's a relationship -- but because I'm in a relationship with someone who makes me feel like absolutely anything is possible, makes it so I don't want to kiss a guy in every county but rather makes me want to kiss him in every county, lets me know I could marry the best looking guy on campus. (Because I'm currently dating him.)
I'm writing this because I want girls to recognize the thirtieth universal truth. That they don't need to be in a relationship just to be in a relationship, or to have fun -- they can have fun regardless and will be in a relationship when the right guy happens along or when they find him.

The Truth to be Ignored

One thing you may have noticed about me --
I do a lot of thinking.
Recently it has been on who I am, not only to myself, but to other people.

I am happily an individual. I do what it is that I want to do, because I want to be who it is that I want to be -- not who other people want me to be.
This has never posed a problem for me before. People like me for me, and my world is a lovely place. But these last few weeks I've encountered
Universal Truth Number Twenty Nine
People have expectations.

Others want you to be thin, smart, beautiful, funny, entertaining. They want you to have all the answers, be present at every function, and have an opinion on every action.

I've become someone that people think they can expect certain things from. This worries me. I'm not the expected. I'll never look like your perfect ex, I'll never be the ideal role model and employee, I won't ever fit into that mold that the world wants me to fit in, and I can't ever pretend that's a problem.
I am who I am. Nothing more, and absolutely nothing less.

I hope that each of you can stand up and say that. That you won't stand by and be labeled. That you won't your friends, your coworkers, your classmates assign you a stereotype and box that you're expected to fit into.
Be your own person, care nothing for the restraints that the twenty-ninth universal truth puts on you. You are your own person. Who cares what every other person expects from you.