Is it really that bad to be alone?

Is it really that bad to be alone?

to never have a companion or partner to share your life with?

 

It depends on the person. Companionship of another isn't quite a necessity unless you don't have the fortitude to be confident in your own life.

For me personally, living alone and being isn't all that bad. Sure, I may contemplate the idea of companionship, but when thinking about the long term commitment and inevitable issues dealing with being someone else, taking the single route isn't really a bad idea. After all, I vow to stay single after 30 IF I'm not in a relationship with someone beforehand.

 

I don't think companionship is for everybody... not necessarily bad imo.

 

If you want to be alone for a specific reason,maybe concentrating on a career development path or studying for a higher degree then its not that bad but to be alone for life is not good, human beings were created to interact with fellow human beings so unless you want to be 90 years old and lonely? I don't think it is good to be alone.

 

Goku? LMAO!

Anyway, you're never alone! It's not really bad to be alone. Like I said, you're never alone! Jesus Christ is with you and watching you over! With his guidance, you should be fine!

 

Ryan Bingham: Sell me marriage.
Natalie Keener: Okay. How about love?
Ryan Bingham: [scoffs] Okay.
Natalie Keener: Stability. Just somebody you can count on.
Ryan Bingham: How many stable marriages do you know?
Natalie Keener: Somebody to talk to, someone to spend your life with.
Ryan Bingham: I'm surrounded by people to talk to. I doubt that's gonna change.


I see no problem with it.

If you think about it we spend a huge chunk of our lives with no life partner or companion, and we get by just fine. Also, if I don't find this person until after 20 years of my life have gone by, can they rightfully call themselves my life partner?

A lot of people seem to forget that monogamy isn't natural. If I never find one of these "life companions" people speak of then I'll be just fine, you're not truly alone unless you lock yourself in your house all day.
Give me a few good friends and some random girls to have sex with and I'm fine. I can entertain myself from there.


Besides, as a great man once said.

"Only love can break your heart"

 

I have had my heart broken twice (HARD, as in it took me 5 years to get over each one and it still hurts). I'd much rather be alone than go through that pain again. But I doubt I will ever fall in love that hard again - where your whole identity is wrapped up in that other person.

That being said, sometimes it hurts to be alone - every now and then there is an ache to have that one special person who is always there... But I'd rather be alone than settle for someone less than I deserve to just to "have" someone.

Right now I am working on my life goals and my art - too much to deal with to invite another person in at the moment.

 

i have a feeling this is a joke thread to make fun of a certain person.....

 

being alone is not bad at all...right now i don't want to live with a significant other...i enjoy companionship but it doesn't have to be 24/7...my main priority is my son's happiness and right now with just two years of high school left i think i can wait

 

i'm at that place as well. i'm enjoying my space and the ability to focus on my children and their needs as well as my own. my parents marriage dissolved 25 years ago and my dad has been and is very happy on his own...i have a feeling i may take after him.

 

I agree with the 2 wise women, lippy and Tarshi. I've been divorced for almost 13 yrs and I really can't imagine myself in live-in relationship yet. I like the freedom and the challenge of independence that comes with everyday life. Plus my girls are pretty much out of the house now and I really don't want to have to take care of somebody else!

 

sorry for the threadjack....

But it is SO NICE to see a woman that thinks that way. It's just so giving and the most opposite of selfish there is. My relationship with my step father would be much different if she felt the same way as you.

 

I'll live with a man again if he will give me the business on a regular basis and has good taste in furniture ;-)