Summer Lovin'

For some reason this past week I'm not quite sure what it is but several of my single friends have been obsessing over their relationship status. I've always heard that people will find it difficult to be single around the winter holidays, but I've noticed lately that a lot of people seem to struggle just as much during the summer. To be honest I'm not sure why, maybe there's something in the water. Or perhaps there's something in the extra humidity or something like that. It could be just because there's all that talk about summer flings that gets tossed around. Let's face it, it's something that is embedded in our culture. Take a look at all the movies we watched growing up that the characters have summer flings. The first two that jump into my mind are of course Grease and Dirty Dancing. There was also that movie where the two lovebirds were always swimming in the water. For the life of me I can't remember the title of that movie. I'm sure you get the point that I'm trying to make, as a society we are taught from a pretty young age that summers are meant for fun. And carefree summer fun includes unhibited sex, and then people wonder why the eighties were the lust generation. I know I sound like a old hag but I guess I just never was good at the one night stand thing. Maybe I don't necessarily demand love and sex together, but I believe you should know them well enough to respect them. Maybe that's just why I never really had a summer fling. Or could understand why all my friends were so obsessive about it.