Singles and their benefits and strengths! The USA has more singles than married people!

 Many people in the USA and also in the world are opting to remain single. They are unmarried and most of the part of their lives they are single and not in any relationship. Some have tried getting into a few relationships in the past while there are also others who have chosen very early in life may be in their teens to go single and remain self-partnered. Though society may look at them with scorn, in fact, society is also jealous of these single people. Because singles have 'true' happiness that the married and family people cannot have. Even if singles have unhappiness due to some reason, it is something that they have in common with the other family people such as health or old-age issues. Besides, singles are prepared majorly for that, unlike the family people who think that with children they will get happiness but only find later on in life that this is not so. But then, it is too late to erase anything in the past. The happiness index of singles is more than that of married people or those in a relationship. 

The meaningful and blissful singlehood

Singlehood and its advantages [Source: Eugeno Cho]

Many times society seems to stigmatize or pity single people. They feel that only married life is happy and that singles have no fun in life and that they do not celebrate life. But this is absolutely wrong. In fact, single life is more meaningful and blissful. It has its own strengths and joyful parts. It is fulfilling and a life that married people would really be envious of. 

If we look at the USA, more Americans above the age of 16 are unmarried than married. Studies have also shown that more Americans spend the major part of their lives being single than in any relationship. Besides, the lives of these singles are more meaningful and authentic. They are far away from the show-offs and status symbols that characterize the lives of married couples and people. These people are single by choice and not any other reason. 

Society and marriages

Society has wrongly said and also grossly exaggerated that marriages lead to blissfulness and happiness. It is a blatant lie. People as old as 80 years have expressed that they wished that they had not married because, at the end of the gruelling exercise, they realize that no happiness came their way in the true sense of the word. 

Married people in fact do so many compromises in their life and mould them so many times in their life that they reach a state of unhappiness. They are more depressed and have lesser self-esteem. Somewhere along the journey, they lose themselves and their inner happiness. They find themselves in a desert thirsting for the water of happiness. Married people tend to move away from their birth families. Their connections with their parents and siblings lessen and that part of their happiness is also lost. Married people especially females also lose their childhood friends and are deeply pained due to it. 

Married life and the multiple problems [Source: Pinterest]

Many people also lose on their career and are unable to reach or perform to their potential due to marriages and the liabilities and responsibilities that come with it. These things become more prominent in nuclear and urban families. 

Also, read on Blissfully single! The picture in India! 

Singles and society

Singles are in fact needed to balance the society, otherwise, it would go topsy-turvy. Without them, the meaning of life would be lost. They teach people to stay resilient and strong. They also give a crying shoulder for married people and friends. They care for loved ones and not only for The One. Their life meanings are broader and better than that for married people. The singles are more skilful and can train society in several tasks that they have already mastered. Their contribution to society is massive and they can also involve themselves in voluntary work.

Singlehood and the comfort [Source: Thirst]

They can take care of their aging parents. They have more time to pursue their passions and hobbies. They have greater autonomy and better personal development and growth that makes them happy every moment. They do not want to trouble anyone for their life problems and do not want to nurture the selfishness that a child should take care of them in their old age.