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Today is February 15th. Yesterday, all of the candies, the cards, the gifts, the dinners, the dates, all that good stuff took place yesterday. But there are some people out there that didn't experience any of that, and it's because they're single. Which brings us to today, Singles Awareness Day.
First and foremost, I don't like the idea that Singles Awareness Day spells out sad. Just because you're single doesn't mean that you should be sad. There are plenty of people out there who are single by choice. They want to be alone.
They don't want to be in a relationship with anybody. And that is perfectly fine. The whole purpose for Singles Awareness Day is for people to show love to themselves. Self-love, self-care.
You don't have to have somebody else doing things for you. You need to learn to love yourself first before you can go out and love somebody else. That's how it should be across the board for everyone. Now, there are some people that didn't apply for where they were so used to having somebody that they just jump from relationship to relationship to relationship because they don't quite have a sense of self.
All they see themselves as being a part of a team, a part of a relationship of something. And it just doesn't have to be that way. Singles Awareness Day is a day for singles to love themselves. OK, so the origin of this day, it comes from a high schooler.
Yes, this guy in high school, him and his friends, they decided that they were going to celebrate their singleness the day after Valentine's Day. So not only can they celebrate themselves, but they can celebrate themselves with discounted candy. And so I think about that. And I'm like, in high school, the population there, there's probably a lot of single kids there, which isn't a bad thing, in my opinion, being an educator.
Kind of like, school is your job? A relationship with somebody in high school? That's a side hustle. That's not necessary.
You don't have to be in a relationship with somebody in high school. But to me, I think it's really interesting that a high schooler created this. But then he also took it on to college with him, and it got even more popular. Is that right?
Even more popular? It became more popular? I don't know. You know what I mean, though.
It became a bigger thing when he went to college. So I think people who are single that are interested in being in a relationship, however, they're not upset about being single, I think that functions like single awareness day type activities would be great for them to possibly meet somebody. And even if the person you meet at one of these type functions isn't the one for you, remember the whole six degrees of separation thing. And although they're not the one, they may know someone who knows someone who knows someone that it would be perfect for you.
So just be open minded, go out there and get to know people. But on the flip side of that, there are people out there that have no desire to get to know anyone. And I'm going to run through some of the names of these various groups out there. And who knows?
You may or may not have heard of them before, but they're out there. So you have this one group, MGTOW. It's men going their own way. And they basically view women as parasites riding on men's coattails.
So they have no desire to be in a relationship, especially with a female, because they feel like their greatness is hindered by being in a relationship with a woman. And so I find that to be very interesting. Now there's also a group of, from what I understand, most incels are men, where they are kind of like blaming women for their singleness. They have some inability to be in a relationship with someone.
And they tend to act out violently in some cases. So there's also the female side of incels. And I have seen some women who read up on what an incel is and they're like, oh, that's me. But they have been affectionately known as femme cells.
And honestly, I look at those two groups as kind of like the awkward kids groups in high school. But they carry this on throughout. So these types of people, they're out there. They want to be single.
So this is one of those things for families, like alert to families. If you have someone in your family who's not dating anyone, they're not married, they don't seem to be interested. Just leave them alone. Don't try to sit there and ask them every single time.
When you get married or who you're dating and that sort of thing, mind your business. Because you never know, they may fall into one of these groups where they're not interested at all. They're not checking for anybody else. But then you constantly, you know, chirping in their ear nonsense.
It doesn't help situations. Now, they may want to be in a relationship and just haven't found that person. But you chirping in their ear, again, isn't helping the situation. So unless you're introducing them to somebody, just back off.
Leave it alone. Let them do them. And eventually, everything's going to work out. Thank you for joining me today.
If you are a single, happy singles day. And if you're not, don't try to stop the shine up a single person. Let them have their day. OK.
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Have a good one.