coolenough2's blog post

Everything in my life lately has centered around my family so much that I'm starting to see why people have their own families, that they move away with their own families. They have their separate lives. If you're single, fathers and uncles and grandparents and cousins and nieces and nephews see that as meaning you have more time for them. You have no legitimate excuse to do something else.

I don't really mind it. My family is great. I really can't complain much. But if what they're doing is trying to convince me to find somebody already and get married, it's really starting to work. Except that I'm so far from being married. I'm not even dating. I don't even have any real prospects to speak of. So I go to these family things and I'm the only one over 15 who's not paired up with anyone. And family members ever so kindly remind me of this fact. I kind of just want to move the fuck away, just move far away and be blissfully alone. But that won't help. I can't run away from myself.