A book written by Liz Tuccillo, published in 2008.
Quite interesting because it mentioned about how to live as a single person. Turn out I'm also a single person. . As we had common thing, the book got a place in my mind.
A single can be a divorcee, a break-heart, a still-not-found or refuse-to-believe love person. It's only a matter of how to endure it.
The author travels around few countries (Rome, Brazil, India, Australia, Iceland, Bali, Paris) to understand about love, dating, marriage from their own perspectives (of course, it involved single women).
The author believes as a single women, we have to
- love ourselves fiercely. Like a lioness protecting her cub.
- love ourselves as passionately as the Roman's love, with joy and enthusiasm and entitlement
- love ourselves with the pride and dignity of any French women
- love ourselves as if we are seventy-year-old Brazilian women dressed all in red and white parading around in the middle of a block party
- stalk ourselves as how much energy we need to put into
- discover our inner Viking and wear our shining armour and love ourselves as bravely as we ever thought possible.
She also point-out several rules which discovered throughout of her journey in writing How to Be Single.
1. Make sure you have friends
2. Dont be crazy, no matter how you feel, because it just makes us all look bad
3. Decide what you believe in and then behave accordingly
4. Get carried away (eventhough it's just impossible to know when you should and when it's just going to end in disaster)
5. Figure out the whole sex thing - when you want it, how to get it, who to do it with
6. Make peace with the statistics because there really isn't anything we can do about them (or is there?)
7. Admit that sometimes you feel desperate (I won't tell a soul)
8. There's really so few people who have it all so try not to bother with that whole envy thing
9. Not to pressure on you, but start thinking about the whole motherhood thing
10. Remember that sometimes there are more important things than you and your lousy love life and get your friends more involved in helping you with your lousy love life
11. Believe in miracles
To me, be a single is not an issue. You are not alone. There's thousands or millions people around the world be the single person. Don't forget, there's people around you. Named it, Friends, families, colleague. You will always be supported by them. Let them be in your life. Perhaps there is a reason why you be a single. Maybe, your Prince Charming has waiting the plane or car to reach you. Why don't you use this chance to cross over your bucket list?
Be positive. As it may bring happier and calmness to you.
