Is being in a relationship really that great?

Ok, so we all know being in a nice happy relationship, is pretty nice, but there are always those people where being in a relationship is their life goal. Does being in a relationship really complete you?

Some people are so desperate to be in a relationship, to be loved, they convince themselves they fall in love with the first person who comes along. It’s not right. I’ve seen people being all emo and threatening to kill themselves when someone they barely know refuses to go out with them. I’ve seen people run into a relationship with the first person who came along after the last person. Yeah. Why?

I don’t understand the big deal with people and why being in a relationship is so important to them. Then when they are in a relationship, within a couple of weeks they’re in love and they’re planning a future together and telling all their friends that they are really special. But the reality is, if it wasn’t that person, it would have been someone else, and they’d be in the exact same position claiming that they’re such a special couple, when its really not, it’s not even real. It’s nothing but an atmosphere of desperation.

We don’t need to be in a relationship to be happy, we need ourselves to be happy, and do everything that makes us happy. Yeah I understand that having a ‘special someone’ makes life quite a bit better when you’ve found someone who’s not just a randomer. But why should that be the main focus in your life, especially when you’re young.

Personally I can’t bear the thought of having someone to be the main focus in my life, I have friends who are moving in with boyfriends/girlfriends and I personally don’t understand it, I want to live with my friends for a good few years yet before I even think about it. What about you guys?

People who think being in a relationship is the most important thing in their lives, are basically just wasting their lives, when there’s so much more they could be doing with them. Concentrating 100% on your relationship and not on anything else to me is a massive waste of your life. The thing is we can have it all, and do we really need someone else to ‘complete us.’ It can feel like at times a relationship is what’s missing in our lives, but we don’t need it to make us any more of a person. We should value ourselves so much more.