The Double Edged Sword of Singlehood
Lincoln Adams | October 13, 2008 @ 9:23 pmI was reading a few quotes by Dr. Laurence J. Peter (the creator of the Peter Principle), and he had this to say about marriage (section in bold are mine):
A bachelor does not grow lonelier as the years pass by. He learns how to live with himself. He satisfies his unique social needs. His companions may consist of members of his own sex or of the opposite sex or any combination of the above. He may dream of the exceptional girl who could excite him to the point where he would give up all this, but while his standards are going up, the quality of what he can get is going down. The available choice of desirable prospective wives gets smaller day by day. As his competence in making a rational selection increases, the desirable selectees decrease.
To estimate his chances of success he looks at his married pals. Most are stalking girls at the office or sneaking off with others’ wives. He concludes that if married men have mistresses or look for sex and love outside of marriage he would not improve his situation by wedlock. A bachelor is a man who looks before he leaps - and then does not leap.
Yup. 
It does seem like no matter how desperate I get, my standards continue to rise higher and higher until they reach such insurmountable heights that no woman on Earth could ever possibly live up to it. I think part of the reason for this is because for each year that I continue to be deprived of wubs and snugglies, I end up wanting whatever romance that might come to be even more potent and meaningful just to make up for those lost years. In other words, I’d want whatever marriage or relationship I end up in to be worth the wait. And the longer I wait, the higher the bar goes.
I’m beginning to realize though that what I hope for has become nothing more than a pipe dream. After all, women are simply incapable of being able to offer the things I’m looking for, even itty-bitty little things like you know: friendship, love, respect, loyalty, and so on. Even when you pay ‘em for it (which is usually the case, marriage or not), the returns are rarely worth the investment.
And now it’s getting to the point now where I really just don’t care any more. With the sinking knowledge that I never will meet the girl of my dreams, I feel safe and content now in openly bashing this vile gender of the human race and exposing them for the dark, ghoulish souls of evil that they are. 
As Laurence Peter once said: “Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.” Knowing this, I would prefer instead to be the hero who survives well beyond the first chapter, riding off into the sunset on his Harley as he moves on to yet another chapter in his life, even if he must ride… alone.
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Oh, and she’s gorgeous as well. Did I mention she’s gorgeous? 


The number of women I talk to on a regular basis outnumbered the guys by a ratio of 5 to 1.



