Letters to the Editor
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Laurel 1962: excellent letter
Thanks for a breath of fresh air, and for torpedoing the stupid generational assumptions about marriage and parenting.
IMHO, the bottom-line least productive way to view life is as an ongoing search for a mate, with everything else coming second.
For the responders here who complain they can't meet anyone: what kind of life do you really lead? Do you have friends, both opposite- and same-sex, that you care about? Do you define yourself by your age/appearance/place in the pecking order of sexual attractiveness? (That ways lies nothing but grief and misery.) Have you awakened to the fact that 99% of the people in the world are much worse off than you, and that you might consider giving back some of your luck in being born in an affluent country by helping others?
As you look around the room, it's the people who are not shackled by generational assumptions, who give more than they expect to get, and who have a wide range of friends to support them (and whom they support) who never complain about stuff like this. Some are married, some aren't; some have kids, some don't. But they are not obsessing about it either way.
Your days on this earth are an immense gift, LW, every single one of them. Get out of this bitterness/loneliness trap while you still can, and make every one of your remaining days count for something.