Saturday, April 4, 2009

I Am Not "The One"

Riddle Me This? Why is it that practically every man that I have invested more than five minutes of my time - as a friend, girlfriend, or the like - feels as though I am "the one"? I often wonder...

If I have been "the one" on more than one occasion, doesn't that make me another number at this point?
If most men want to make me their wife, does that make me a pseudo-polyandrist (female polygamist)?
Perhaps it's my stretch marks secretly emitting childbearing energy into my aura that only men sense causing them to want to impregnate me.
And finally, if you believe that I am the one for you, but I don't believe you are the one for me, that technically means 1 + -1 = 0, and you have NOTHING!"

There's no way any of this is possible, which leads me to believe that this whole concept of "the one" is as big a myth as monogamy itself.

Allow me to digress. Contrary to what we are taught to believe, it is not human nature to want to be with one person; that's an act we practice because society says its right. There is no undiscovered formula to the reason why the divorce rate is so high or why Cheaters is such a popular television show. Its very simple, we are greedy and our natural instinct leads us to pursue multiple partners.

While we're on the subject, being with multiple partners is not impressive; it's actually effortless because it coincides with the laws of nature. Convincing a woman you have never met to sleep with you is easy; but try convincing a woman to make love to you when she knows you consistently pee on the toilet seat, your morning breath has the ability to reshape eyebrows, and you have a malignant mole growing three quarters of the way between your navel and your left nipple.

So again I ask, if it's our human nature to be with more than one person, where the heck did this obnoxious concept of "the one" come from and why do so many men assign me the title of such? It can only be one of three things:

• Men have implicit qualifications for being “the one” that I have
unwillingly embodied
• There is a shortage of women who are smart, witty, understanding, adventurous
and challenging – which is not to be confused with combative
Or
• There is no such thing as “the one”

I'll let you decide

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