Not Ready... to be caught.

Since I was in eigth grade older women have loved me, they have wanted to marry me off to their daughters, they have often times, I think- wanted to marry me... or wished that they had married someone like me, I can see it in their eyes. I know, that sounds weird, and maybe even a little weird, but let me explain. I had two sisters, so I know how to deal with girls, I know how to make girls laugh, I know how to dance, to do a cart wheel, to patty cake, how to dance like a madman, how to cook, how to clean, how to put the toilet seat down, how to ask for directions, and how to listen. I like to shop, I like all varieties of music, I like to fish, I like to watch sports, I like to go out and have a good time, I don't mind staying in, I laugh easy, and I am easy to please. However, for all my good intentions, I have not found the right girl to catch, and no matter how many times I have been told, "You would be a great catch" I have decided that I am not quite ready to be caught.

Is that so wrong? Is it such a bad thing to love being single, to love being able to do what I want, when I want, and not have to ask permission? Is it such a bad thing that I enjoy my own company, or the company of a good book? Is it wrong to be a hermit?

I don't think so. I love me. I love spending time with me, eating just what I want, going to bed when I want, leaving the toilet seat up, listening to what I want- I am not ready to share- I shared enough as a child and I am not ready to give up some parts of me just yet. I have not seen a shiny enough lure, I have not been enchanted, or been caught under a spell or struck with an arrow straight through my heart... at least not yet, and I have found in all my twenty-eight years, that when people finally find that perfect someone that the timing is right, and everything works out blissfully well, but each time I have always been told, "don't get in a rush, it's okay to be single, enjoy this time". And so I have decided to take that advice to heart and go and see all the action movies I want, eat all the hot wings I desire, stay up as late as I want, play video games till the wee hours of the morning, spend my disposable income on new clothes and enterainment and hobbies, and one day, when the timing is right, and the lure is bright, I just might bite... and allow myself to be caught, or I might do some catching myself!