THIEN BUI
Single? What’s that?

“Why must I be single?” says the desperate teenager who hopelessly pleads for a relationship. Though relationships can be an exhilarating thing, they often lead to heart-break. Teenagers—young and often inexperienced— have a misconception that a relationship is the solution to their problems. They invest valuable time in someone they consider “special”, spending more time getting to know that person on a deeper level, and more of that time only to find out they were 1.) dumped, 2.) cheated on, or 3.) incompatible. These naïve teens later end the night doing one of many things: weeping over the phone, crying themselves sleep, or indulging in the largest box of chocolates as if they were savages from Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. As if that’s not enough, their mind is scarred with visions of love and its potential happiness. Today, love is often placed on pedestal for teenagers; they rather put relationships as their first priority. Subsequently, would it not be fair to say that finding love is made to be a necessity in life by the adolescent demographic?