Brad VS Jen

I’m at the stage where a lot of people my age have had, or still are in long-term relationships. Being 21, a good number of these couples started out as high-school sweethearts. They’re either married, or talking about getting married. They’re either planning to have babies together, have already done so or are currently expecting.

And me? After almost five and a half years, I’m starting from zero. As I started picturing my life without him, I realised that he and I will forever be subjected to judgement by anyone who ever knew us on a scale of Brad Pitt VS Jennifer Aniston.

I was one of those people who thought it only happened in Hollywood, until I witnessed it for myself at a party recently. He walked into the room with his new partner, and heads turned towards Maria* who was standing at the other side of the room. "I feel so sorry for her," people said.

One person ends up marrying the next person they find, raising a beautiful family in a beautiful house.

The other one will have strings of failed relationships, usually with assholes, oftentimes into their thirties, and sometimes into their infertility. They’re the one people look at and think 'poor thing.' They’re the one people feel sorry for, the one people worry about. "Do you think she’ll ever find anyone else?" I don’t know.

But amidst everyone's assumptions, whose to say she's the unhappier one? People can be in a relationship and be unhappy too. No one ever congratulates you for being single and independent. No one admires people who have the strength to admit that they're not ready to settle down.

Love, Noeline
xox

Sad thing is...

“Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.”
— Elvis

Osama Bin Laden is dead. Now what?

The only thing that ended with Osama Bin Laden's death is just that - his life. He wasn't the last Islamic extremist.

It's like saying Christianity would end if the Pope were to be murdered. We'd just get another one.

"(The celebrations) are just like the so-called reports by American television of Muslims celebrating after September 11, this is just as bad"
- Kuranda Seyit, director of the Forum on Australia's Islamic Relations

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