I prefer dumbbells to people

I saw this on a friend's page and despite the obvious people-bashing that is on the forefront of it...i think there is something more to it than meets the eye.

To me, this is a statement of priority and security. You see, a secure person, a person who knows what they want and what they like will do it...despite what is expected of them. We are expected to run in packs and to be alone is just "unnatural." As humans we are expected to go through certain stages...school, college, jobs, relationships, engagments, marriages, kids, retirement, death...well death is the only one you cant escape here people. From birth to death you write your own story. No one said those had to be the names of your chapters. For instance, i chose about 8 chapters of college and practically made a career out of it. I then did the job thing for about 2 pages, found that dull and wrote my own ending to that chapter known as network marketing. I found freedom and liberation in that chapter. I am not tied down to a boss or a schedule. I fill my 30-31 squares with what i want to do rather than what i'm expected to do. I also have written my own book on how to occupy yourself...alone. I like being alone, people dont get it and they dont have to. It's what I like.

I've also reached the fold old age of 28 where most have expected that i would be married, or at least in a relationship at this point, yet i look around and some of my friends are unhappily married, getting divorced or struggling to make sense of themselves because they never took the time to find out what they wanted. Instead, they did was has been culturally accepted...the path of least resistance. I Chose to write my chapters 1-28 as sort of single, relationship, dating, sort of single again, a few more relationship chapters and the last 3 have involved lots of "i am woman, hear me roar" as i live into the single status again. Spending time alone is a good thing. "To know you...is to spend time with you" So enjoy the quiet, the peace within and revel in loneliness...because on the inside you're growing, learning and shaping who want to be and blending with you are.

I have found as i get older that to do what you want to do as opposed to what you are expected to do it liberating, empowering and really does allow you to be who you were meant to be! So, if you prefer to be alone, throwing dumbbells and capping delts, while most girls hang in groups talking about how skinny they want to be...then have at it. Be you, do what makes you happy and forget what society wants or thinks!