Life Lesson #1: No Need For A +1.
Preface:
No matter who you are, where you’re from, we’re all on this adventure called, “life.” My life is neither glamorous nor of extreme poverty, and if I had to categorize my life, I would call it “average.” For some people this life may seem boring, but it’s my ordinary life with ordinary events, and I just have to be okay with that.
So while I’m on this adventure called “life,” I will try to share some of the lessons I’ve learned.
Life Lesson #1: No Need For A +1.
I’m 23 years old and for most of my life I’ve been single – by choice – mostly because I cannot stand the thought of being tied down to 1 person (but that could be another blog post).
With that said, my friend Evelina (yes, we have similar names) told me she was engaged. And of course, I was happy for her!
When it came time to RSVP, she asked me if I was bringing someone or going solo. My immediate response was “solo.”
Previous weddings I had been invited to, it didn’t matter if I went alone because I usually knew tons of the other guests going. [And if you're in the cl, well you know why I would go alone.] However at this wedding, I only knew the bride and maybe one other person.
I don’t remember exactly who I told this to, but her immediate response was that it was a horrible idea to go to my friend’s wedding alone, especially if I wouldn’t know anybody there. This was reconfirmed multiple times by multiple people, so I believed all of them because, well I didn’t know any better.
This led me to change my RSVP to add a +1, this began my frantic search for a +1. I decided not to bring another girl cause well that might be weird to explain, but my guy friend count is basically at zero. [I moved back here in February, so most of my friends from college are dispersed and I have no idea how people make new friends outside of school.] Thus my dilemma.
With the wedding less than 2 weeks away, I still had no +1. I went through a list of guys I knew that I thought might be cool enough to accompany me to a wedding and not have to worry about When Harry Met Sally.
After asking a few people, things just never worked out. I eventually just decided to stick with my original plan and go SOLO.
If you didn’t figure out from the title of this post, I completely loved it and had so much fun! I didn’t have to worry about how another person was doing and was just free to meet other people, chat it up, catch up with a long-lost elementary school mate – to just enjoy myself.
To all my ladies: There is no need for a +1. It’s really not horrible if you have to go to a wedding by yourself. Trust me.
So next time someone tells you that you’re going to be miserable at a wedding by yourself, remember this blog post.
Until next time.
all in all: adv : with everything considered (and neglecting details); ”altogether, I’m sorry it happened”; “all in all, it’s not so bad” [syn: on the whole, altogether, tout ensemble]
