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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: Credibility...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.194936.5318@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <ewright.727042916@convex.convex.com> <5992@maserati.qsp.UUCP> <ewright.727573793@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 19:49:36 GMT
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- In article <ewright.727573793@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >
- >There's a big difference between someone who is happy despite
- >being single and someone who is happy being single. Saying
- >you're "happy being single" is about as credible as saying
- >you're "happy having cancer."
-
- Gosh, I've had Cancers before and it was lots of fun (I'd say that they're
- at least as good as any other sun sign). (Or were you not talking about
- "moon children" there?)
-
- Seriously, though, there are lots of things to enjoy about being single;
- indeed, after a few relationships that got a bit bad towards the end, I
- was delighted to be single again and definitely wanted to stay that way,
- at least for a while. I also know people who seem to have no interest in
- being in a relationship at all (one in particular has the problem that
- she's (by our current social standards) very attractive, intelligent, etc.,
- and keeps having people decide that she's their ideal woman and wanting
- to live the rest of their lives with her while her interest in even
- dating anybody is simply nonexistent).
-
- What I do want to know is why you feel so certain about this pronouncement
- that it is impossible to be happy being single? What do you feel that
- people get out of being not-single that is essential to happiness?
-
- I'm happy enjoying a hot fudge brownie sundae and I'm also happy enjoying
- a good pizza--how is enjoying being single and enjoying being not-single
- so different?
-
- Trygve (I'm even happy to enjoy other singles with hot fudge.)
- --
- "Perhaps the most compelling conclusion that may be drawn from any of the
- multitude of books written about the prophesies of Nostradamus is that
- he possessed the most uncanny ability to acurately forsee the future up
- through the publication date of the book, after which his prescient
- abilities decline rapidly."
-