For years, young girls have been taught to believe in this fairytale lifestyle, in which a man will whisk you off your feet and the two of you will live "happily ever after." I have always thought finding the "right guy" was just a given, along with all my other life goals. I never considered the possibility of any obstacles intruding on this vision I had created for myself. What if love isn't a given? What if you spend your whole life searching for that one person and you never find them? Is that just wasted time? The amount of time spent on primping before dates, analyzing his words/body language the day after with your friends, and of course, the inevitable tears and self-blame when it doesn't work out, is exhausting. Are we that fixated on the idea of love that we endure the horrors of dating, hoping that sooner or later, that one special guy will come along?
Robert Frost said, "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." I think it is this yearning for self-validation and reassurance that we are not alone that drives us to want to find love. It's knowing that among billions of people in the world, we have at least one person who will share our life/soul unconditionally and protect it as if it were their own.
Is the energy we put into finding love a direct correlation to how lonely and hollow we are as individuals? I've heard that many single people lead very satisfying lives...and although I am content with many aspects of my life, I still have that irresistible desire. Love is one thing I cannot give up on, no matter how many disastrous men I meet.
Yours truly,
Audrey
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