Q: It has to get worse before it gets better.

I learned that another high school friend will be tying the knot soon. At 24, questions about one’s life partner seem inevitable. I choked on my own saliva at such curiosity of people around me, an attention undeserving for my lack of ambition in refining that aspect of my life. Needless to say, I often caught myself replying rather timidly, “No, I don’t… Er, too busy with studies…”

Sheesh, that’s not true. I lied again. It can’t be helped that the keys wouldn’t fit the lock for some reason. And I don’t mean it in a sexual way, okay. No chemistry is the word; or rather I have high expectations of others that weren’t met. This is problematic in my mother’s opinion. No, or should I say in any mother’s opinion. What about procreation and fulfilling a woman’s duty? My head is too big to wrap around this right now with grad school taking much of my concern.

So, love life’s gonna take a back seat again. Whatever the case is, I am still searching for the right one.

Along with dawn,
Vonnie S.