I'm sure this statement will prompt a few comments, but I'm beginning to think people my age (30ish) have no business being single.
Let's face it - we cost too much. Living alone - driving alone - cooking for one. Bulk discounts don't apply. We spend more on ourselves, and on things that don't really matter (harder to splurge when it means a week of pb&j for more than just you).
And that's just our money. There may be an even larger gap in the productive use of our time. Unless you're out saving the world, penning the next great novel, or curing disease in a backyard lab, the time we aren't spending wiping noses or ironing hubby's shirts is probably keeping company with mine - invested in the latest TV series or online store.
Can we mention sex? God designed us to enjoy it and crave it as motivation for working it out with our spouse. Very helpful if you're married. Major issue if you're single.
But the biggest waste I see are side-effects of aloneness (which doesn't necessarily include loneliness). People journeying alone instead of spurring each other on to greater things. Children with less than two parents backing them. The lost opportunities of unchanged lives.
God wasn't kidding - it's not good when man is alone. Not necessarily bad, just apparently not as good as it could be. Unless of course you're called to be single. But that's another topic.
So what do we do about it? Lasso the first unmarried person you see Sunday morning? Pay eHarmony to find you a find...catch you a catch? Discipline yourself into a more productive, purer, Jesus-loving life of eternal impact than that of your married counterparts? Not bad ideas (except maybe for the lasso).
What say you?
Here it is - something new.
