Single People Unite

As you may know its tax season and many people are receiving their W-2 forms. While talking about, filing my taxes a married person made this comment. "It must really suck to be single around this time,  well hell anytime". To that I gave them a serious side-eye, but the more I thought about it the more I realized singlehood is thought about as this sad, depressing and lonely state. Its looked down upon and even rebuked by some. Even the government treats this status like Harriet Tubman's stepchild. If your single (unmarried) and without children, you're paying taxes out the ass, we get no respect!

Now this post isn't about some singlehood anthem or empowerment theme song. No this is about how our counterparts look down at us single folks with a sense of disgust, like turkey a week after Thanksgiving. Well I say no more to this mistreatment! Is it just me, but did people become way more interested in your dating status after you turned 25? The questions about who you're seeing or when you're getting married became more rampant and annoying. It just seems like married people (well truthfully married women) have this elitist attitude towards us singles, "like oh you poor lonely soul one day you'll find the right person". Its like they're going around saying, I's married now all the time.

Boo bye! Look being single whether its by choice or circumstances doesn't warrant pity parties or gross disapproval of one's lifestyle. I don't need to explain or justify why I'm single to anyone. We're not about to have discussion about it, like that scene in Bridget Jones Diary, where she's invited to a dinner party and there's nothing but married people there. Everybody starts going in on her and rattling off statistics about single people over 30 and the likelihood of them getting married. It was just plain torture to watch that part of the movie, I've been in this position before and its awkward as hell.  I just believe that singlehood shouldn't be looked at with such negative connotations and sad feelings. Being married doesn't put you on an elite level there's no caste system going on here, you're married you didn't win the damn lotto. I'm not saying that marriage shouldn't be celebrated, well technically it is celebrated, its called a wedding. But where's the wedding for us singles? We don't get presents for not marrying the wrong person, like so many people do just for the sake of saying they're married. And for that I think we should be congratulated! But married people seriously just remember once upon a time you were single at one point and the statistics also show that you're more than likely to end up that way again.