Here’s an essay that wrote for The Gloss:
I have a playlist on my phone labeled “Story of My Life.” Included on this list are songs that I’ve always found to encapsulate various tipping
points in my life. One of these songs is “Being Alive” from the Stephen Sondheim musical Company. The musical follows Bobby, a life- long bachelor in his mid-thirties, and his married friends. Bobby struggles with deciding what it is he wants for himself in terms of love and commitment. While at his surprise birthday party, and after the constant pressure from his friends to settle down, Bobby has an epiphany. He sits at the piano and begins to explain to his friends, through song, why he’s so ambivalent about love. As he lists his excuses for why he continues to bounce from woman to woman, his friends chime in with their rebuttals.
You’ve got so many reasons for not being with someone, but Robert you haven’t got one good reason for being alone.
Why is there this idea that being alone (i.e. “single”) means being lonely? Of COURSE a person can be single and still perfectly fulfilled in life. If someone is deciding what he wants in life, why rush that, just to make other people happy by coupling up?
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Great positive comments over there. Congrats.
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Excellent article and its true for so many couples that misery loves company. I’ve awlays admired the line in Defying Gravity from “Wicked” “And if I’m flying solo at least I’m flying free”
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I appreciate the comments, but please leave them over at The Gloss. Thanks!
And while yer at it, comment on this one too:
http://www.rolereboot.org/sex-and-relationships/details/2013-03-heres-what-happens-when-you-update-your-okcupid-pref
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