You should be loving someone.
From an early age we’re taught to be loving. Love your family, show love to those around you, do what you love, aspire to fall in love. It’s not shown to us absence of love. I think because of this, kids from an early age start to seek somebody who could love them romantically. It feels different than the love from our family and other close relationships. It feels like a special kind of magic and elusive. We start chasing it, and some people can chase it their whole lives. We put so much stock on romantic relationships that those who don’t have one are often attempted to be matched up by friends. They use phrases like “you DESERVE someone” as if being single is a punishment and only being in a relationship is classified as having it all. Having been in happy, loving romantic relationships I do get this concept as that kind of happiness makes you feel arguably better than other heightened emotions and happiness. The quest to find love, to be in love and happ