Tuesday 4 December 2012

CHOOSEDAY...LIVING IN A NOAH'S ARK WORLD WHERE EVERYTHING COMES IN PAIRS..

So it's that time of the year again...you know endless end year functions, Christmas and new year parties and because it is summer time in South Africa wedding season.

I am once again having my "single" status highlighted in freaking neon colours and just for today I am CHOOSING to indulge myself pity and let it all out....because I did not CHOOSE this life for myself and the truth of the matter is...



Do you know what it feels like to feel alone in a crowded room?
Do you know what it feels like to watch the life growing beneath your heart move and know that I will never experience that?
Do you know what searing pain and fear shoots through your entire being when you read “plus 1” on an invitation?
Do you know what it feels like to have to be seated at a different table at weddings and other functions just because you are single?
Do you know what it feels like to see you so loved and know that I never will be?
Do you know what it feels like to walk into a room filled with people with no one at your back?
Do you know what it feels like to deal with every single problem on your own?
Do you know what it feels like to know that all your friends are in love?
Do you know what it feels like to never be invited out because you throw the table seating out?
Do you know what it feels like to have others look at you with sympathy because you are alone?
Do you know what it feels like to have others stare at you because you are going to a movie on your own, out to dinner on your own?
Do you know what it feels like to always set the table with one plate, one knife, one fork and one glass?
Do you know what it feels like to stand in front of a stove and cook for one?
Do you know what it feels like to spend time getting ready for work or a function and to have no one say you look nice let alone that you look beautiful or sexy?
Do you know what it feels like to watch a family making sandcastles on the beach while you know that your sandcastles have long ago been washed away by the tide?
Do you know what it feels like to watch a romantic movie with no one to hold you?
Do you know what it feels like to wonder how long it will be before anyone finds your body should you die during the night?
Do you know what it feels like to live in fear of dying alone?
Do you know what it feels like to cry alone and know that there will never be someone to reach out and wipe away your tears?
Do you know what it feels like to miss someone you have never met?


Do you know how frustrating it is to have to pay a “single” traveller supplement every time I travel?
Do you know how much I want to stab a knife through your eyeball every time you ask “So, why aren’t you married”?
Do you know how much money I have spent on wedding, engagement, baby shower and kids birthday party presents?
Do you know how difficult it is to make healthy food choices when it’s for one?
Do you know how difficult it is to motivate yourself to go to gym or diet when no one sees you naked…EVER?
Do you know how uneventful it is to cross an item off your bucket list when you have no one to share it with?
Do you know how pathetic it is to watch a beautiful sunset on your own, to take a long walk on the beach on your own and to dance in the rain on your own?
Do you know how hollow your laugh sounds when you laugh out loud and there is no one else with you?
Do you know how it feels to watch others walk down the street holding hands while your hands are hanging by your side?
Do you know how it feels to have to say out loud “I am single” ?
Do you know how it feels to ALWAYS have to be in control because there is no else to shoulder the burden?
Do you know how long a night can be when you have no one to talk to?
Do you know how lonely a bed can be when you have no one to share it with?
Do you know how insignificant your day becomes when you come home and there is no one to talk to about your day?
Do you know how it feels to go days without being touched by another person?

Do you even care?



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