Love

Sitting at a fairly busy coffee shop one morning, I couldn't help but embrace my natural curiosity and do some people watching. What seemed to be trending: Relationships. Everywhere I looked there were couples making kissy faces, feeding each other or just longingly gazing into their significant other's eyes. It made me think about my life or more specifically: My love life, or lack thereof. I seem unable to maintain a romantic relationship and I've finally realised and acknowledged the reasons for that. For starters, I went to a top, all girls private school. We read novels about charming, good looking, romantic men that would sweep women off their feet, forever treating them like princesses. Not having men around to compare this too, we naievely began to believe that, that was how men were supposed to be. After finally meeting those of the opposite sex, it became painfully obvious that men were not like that at all. Some girls were able to look past this and enter into relationships. I, however, refuse to lower my standards. Why should I not find a charming, good looking, romantic man that will fall hopelessly in love with me and sweep me off my feet?

Besides my education ruining my outlook on love, my personality has also played a part. I am fascinated with the world and love learning about as many topics as possible. I love talking about all that I have learnt, expressing my thoughts and opinions. However, there aren't many men who have as many interests as I do and I find myself getting bored with their plain minds after a few months. How can I be with someone who cannot hold a conversation about art, music, books, politics, philosophy and whatever other topic crosses my mind at the time? 

My friends have often said to me, "You are either going to find the perfect man...or you will live life jumping from one man to another." Naturally I would want the former, although I'm not hopeful. It doesn't seem that I am going to meet a man that meets the standards I have set. Until I do, I will probably remain single, sitting in coffee shops alone and people watching.