Marriage

   There is rarely any success in marriage, so what's the point? Marriage is considered successful if it doesn't end in divorce, which accounts for only 35% of marriages today. 35% of marriages are successful, including couples considered swingers, hiding affairs, together for financial reasons, together for their children, and experiencing domestic violence. Of those marriages that don't fall into these categories, how many couples are perfectly happy? How many people haven't sacrificed a part of their lives, their dreams, or themselves to please their partner and to keep their marriage "successful?" Yeah, you might die with someone by your side, but I don't think that's going to make you happy when you didn't live the life you wanted. It's believed (through studies, according to my current psych professor) that older single women are as happy, if not happier than married women. Maybe we should just join rest of the world (except for penguins) and ditch this whole monogamy virtue. It's worth a shot.

Social Networks

       What is our generation's need to document their every feeling on some social networking site?!  There was a time when complaining and showing your sentimental side was discouraged. People were considered weak; women were drama queens, and  guys lost their manliness because of it. It's great that over time we've been able to open up to improve our emotional health, but to what extent is expressing ourselves healthy or beneficial to us? Especially when we're doing it publicly and online.  

       Half of the things that people post on facebook or twitter, they would never even say to someone in person. Even when people text, they say things they wouldn't have the courage to say to someone in person. I would love one day for a guy to call me to talk or come up to me and ask me on a date so we can get to know each other. Instead, we get to know each other via text. It's hard to read a person's tone or emotion in a text, yet for some reason we feel more connected this way. Will we reach a point where we don't know how to personally interact with each other? Think about it, how many times have you been walking to class when a stranger looks at your and says "Good morning, how are you?" It's not only a rare occurrence, but when it does happen, we think that person is talking to someone else or just weird. In another time period, or in other cultures, this would be expected. Social networks are making us bolder maybe, or more connected, but I wouldn't say they're making us more social.