I just want people to realize that they don’t need a relationship to be happy. People should be happy with and by themselves; relationships should add to happiness, but not define happiness. I get scared when people, especially people our age, talk about getting married or talk about dying if the person he or she is dating leaves him or her. I just don’t get it! I feel like so many people are obsessed with the idea of being in a relationship and are afraid of being alone, so they just tack on to the first person they can. I think that in so many relationships, you could switch one of the people in the relationship, and the other person would “love” them exactly the same. I think that’s so weird! I can see how breaking up after being with someone for so long can be a little depressing, but I do not see how this can constitute the mental breakdown that so many people go through. A person should be self-sufficient and should be able to function on his or her own. I’m not saying that everyone should be single, and I’m not saying that everyone’s relationships are like this. I just think that there are other things that better define happiness than whether or not someone is in a relationship.
You don’t know yourself.
And I, who am half in love with you,
What am I in love with?
My own imaginings?
When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet:
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply I may forget.
