December 10, 2005

If you've just been discharged from hospital after a rather traumatic accident, I can recommended to get yourself visited by that gorgeous blonde and noder extraordinaire, Paraclete. She provided not only 48 hours of entertainment by sharing with us her collection of hilarious anecdotes, she also cooked us a restaurant-worthy starter, a bloody brillant dessert and showed us parts of E2 we never dared to venture.

If she didn't exist, she'd had to be invented.

Thanks for stopping by, babe. You shine brighter than a super nova.

I can honestly say that about working at Kmart. It is much different than working at the ol' gas station. I am not required to count my register down or anything. Just ring people up and get on with it. Today will be my second day. All of the people in management think I am great. It helps when everyone else is lazy and not very motivated. I just hope that the head honcho's don't expect to much outta me at $6.50 per hour.

This is the kind of thing I hear from my co-workers at least once a week, and most people have heard it at some point in their life when they were single. It gets more annoying every time. Why do people think that being happy or unhappy has anything to do with whether or not you have a significant other? A boyfriend or girlfriend won't make a person happier about their job or change the regrets they have about their life. If anything it will create more regrets, judging by most of human history. Besides, a person can't exactly walk down to the corner shop and pick out a guy or girl to take home. Meeting people takes time, effort and whole lot of luck.

In my opinion there is nothing wrong with being alone, and being unhappy is a fact of life. I don't proselytize my views as a single person, saying "You would be happier if you would just break up/divorce/etc." For some reason, though, non-single people can't seem to extend the same courtesy.