stop telling me what to do!!!

I'm a big girl people. Yes, I like to go out. Yes, I like meeting new people. Yes, I know a bar isn't a great place to be looking for a soulmate. BUT ...

I AM NOT LOOKING FOR MY SOUL MATE

I'm so sick of the lectures about you need to find a better caliber of people than the ones that hang out at the 'pound (hello ... a couple of the sweetest people I've ever met I met at the 'pound and they're wonderful friends). Or you need to go to place X or Y to meet better people. I
*like* the places I go to. I have *fun* there. That is my requirement when choosing a venue: am I going to have fun? Not: am I going to meet my future husband? I don't care about future husbands. I'm so fed up with the dating BS that I'm just not that interested. And all of this well-intentioned advice is just making me crankier about it.

I don't want to deal with that right now so get off my case people! Let me go out and have fun. Let me enjoy spending time with you and whoever I happen to meet. Yes, a lot of them are weird and creepy (but so are we ... well, weird. Not really creepy), but c'mon, they end up being amusing stories in the end! It's not like I'm taking any of them seriously anymore. Yes, I did a year or so ago ... but I'm not any more. And I'm not looking to meet 'the one'. Screw that. He doesn't exist. And I'm OK with that. I just wish folks would stop treating me like a social pariah because I don't have a significant other, won't have one any time soon, and have no interest
is trying to hunt one down. I understand there are a lot of wonderful things to being part of a couple - I *was* married once and there were a lot of wonderful things about the ideal of that situation. Unfortunately that situation wasn't ideal. But there are lots of wonderful things about being single. If everyone would just get off my back and let me enjoy them.

-s