today's other topic: single by choice -- and proud of it

it is usually against society's norms and married women's wishes that women like me remain single. i've said this before. but in reading about some, uh, dating topics, i ran across the following statement:

(from this book on amazon site, titled younger men, older women...) "Increasing numbers of women are choosing to live their lives as single women."

my first thought? thank goodness i have been able to do that without wrecking someone else's life in the process...just think, women are leaving married life (what i suppose is supposed to be Nirvana) to join my singlehood (apparently the real Nirvana?).

hmmm. i have considered before that i was perhaps the envy of other people who would like to be single like me. now, i know it's true.

sad it doesn't feel as good as it sounds...

oh oh oh. here's another statement, which can be exactly the reason i tend to find younger men appealing. when they have their shirts on and i'm not distracted by the awesome way they look. from the same book on amazon:

"Today more and more women find the men of their generation stuck in an outdated patriarchal mode and the men of the next generation more eager for gender equality." ah yes, this is it.

i think younger than my age, they are younger than my age. like attracts like. well, especially when i also LOOK younger than my age. ;)