17 Couples

Couples are so boring. People become so weak when they are in couples. No longer do they need to think for themselves. They become fat or for the stressed out ones, scrawny. Because it no longer matters how they get along with any of their other friends because those friends no longer matter. Those friends are just space fillers for the time when someone who really matters comes along.

And when someone that really matters comes along, that someone does his or her best to erase the very traits that must’ve somehow been part of the attraction all along. Now when people are in a couple, they must think like each other, dress like each other and try hard not to have the other person disapprove of them. In essence these people disappear from everyone else.

The tricky part is that not exactly everyone acts that way, just most people. So if you should become part of a couple yourself, everyone assumes you too will act this way, and they have no more use for you.

So why is coupling considered a form of success? I look at my unmarried friends in awe because I wish I was strong enough to become unmarried. I think that it will freak people out but the day when I get the guts up to get unmarried will be the day of MY success. I will be un-erasing myself and standing back on my own two feet.

And if people can’t see me, then it will be my own fault.

11/19/04