Single is the new black

(Married friends....please take this with a dose of irony. It's all just in jest! You know I think you're beautiful, wonderful and perfect already :)

Fellow singles, it’s time to fight back.

It seems society is cutting us down at every turn: Life as a single is already more expensive having no one to share the milk or toilet paper with, but singles also lose out on a bunch of breaks afforded to doubles.

For example, there are no singles’ tax breaks like the ones marrieds get to enjoy; we don’t get to plan fancy events where we collect money or expensive gifts like new blenders and gold-rimmed dishes; and, if that weren’t enough, if we ever want to go anywhere, we actually have to pay more because we’re by ourselves. Talk about insult to injury!

So team, since there’s not much we can do about any of that, I guess our only choice is to fight back with creative weaponry.

It’s time for us to have more fun, be smarter, better looking, more fit and do more interesting things.

It’s time to make them jealous of us people!

What we miss most about being single - Love - Canadian Living

The having more fun part will be easy; it’s a no-brainer really. The fact of the matter is, we can do whatever we want whenever we want, so fun is at our finger tips, at any moment of the day.

For example, I ate a big, fat grilled cheese sandwich for dinner on Friday night. I didn’t even add any vegetables or a salad, just grilled cheese and a whole lot of ketchup……… because I felt like it. 

Is that fun or what?

In terms of being smarter, being single allows us ample time for reading books, magazines, newspapers, websites etc., and taking classes to nourish our noggins. Hit the libraries my friends!

Better looking and more fit sound simple enough. Clearly, we have more time to go to the gym, get mani/pedis, get our hairs did, shop for the latest fashions and keep up with our waxing, or at least tell people that we are (who will ever know?).

Look at Jennifer Aniston, she really couldn’t be any hotter. But do you think she’d have time to straighten her hair, go to the bronzing parlour, yogasize, run, whiten her teeth and do all those sit ups if she had a family to worry about? Let’s be honest, she does tend to look a bit more polished than Angelina most of the time, like at least she’s brushed her hair that week. But who can blame Angelina, with her brood of seven, she’s lucky she finds the time to throw some lip stain on those big pillows for the Golden Globes. Fortunately for her she’s naturally gorge.

Finally, do more interesting things comes with the territory of being single. Isn’t it funny that while in a relationship, we’ll stick to the same, routine gym workouts and Saturday night entertainment choices, but suddenly, as a single, we’ve joined a trapeze club and spend Saturday nights learning how to cross-country-ski or indoor rock climb after our knitting club and flower-arranging class.

What we miss about being single: 5-10 - Love - Canadian Living

So there you go doubles. You may have more money than us, nicer stuff and get to go on better trips, because it costs you less, but I’ll be damned if we’re not going to be smarter, better looking, more fit, and do more fun and interesting things.

We may cry our lonely selves to sleep at night, but whatevs! At least we look good in the morning. 

Single is the new black.