Being "single" a social stigma?...

yes and no?

A friend described being single as having "small blessings" ... constituting small adjustments in life... and I can only speculate what it means...

...the problem with the heart lies in the nature of its inability to keep still... our lives are in perpetual motion and it stands to reason that a statistic state can never last for long... for the pleasures of being single are apparent and yet, being with someone too much could sometimes invoke likeness of the idiom, "familiarity breeds contempt"... and yet, in between togetherness, the rest of that idiom, "distance makes the heart grow fonder"... is also true...

Life is in a constant state of flux...

I shun small talk resonating like "You should settle down...you're 30+ ...it's about time you tied the knot... why are you not getting hitched yet?... don't you want to wake up next to someone who would make your mornings worthwhile"... Why? ... because you now have your mate and children gives you the moral right to lecture whom you perceive to be "incomplete" or "unfulfilled"... let's not forget who were once single; are now extolling the virtues of relationships and marriages? spare me...

I do not desire to be a citizen of this state... but I my time has not come yet...