Single Shopping

If the world can be said to be in transition or mutation, then it is changing towards the single mentality. It is what we have turned to in our present time. We can be said to be a society of very lonely single folks. We are usually working alone in our offices and alone within our work stations. We have perfected text message chatting than through face-to-face. Everything we eat as we travel is single portions of food, in perfect weight and measurement and wrapped in advance for us, since we have halted and done away with the knowledge of socializing among each other. Anonymity can be said to have replaced personal communication which has left through the social window.

For most individuals who are single, shopping is a really soul destroying task that we perform. Each and everything in present time is now packaged in a way that reminds us of how alone we are and the magnitude of solitary living. In essence, our shopping habits have affected mostly, where even in a hotel, there is something like a table for a single person. Single shopping has made our refrigerators half empty or containing food that is on its way to the dustbin. Since cooking is not important anymore, the diet of a single person has magnanimously affected the diet, where we now gain weight with impunity and never find enjoyment when we do solo shopping.

Going to a store or supermarket is quite a daunting task mostly when you are a single human being. Since foods are packed in huge portions we are left freezing them and even throwing any leftovers away. Sometimes we buy many packets since they last for a long time. What you require is things in sizeable amounts, not in bags as if you are feeding a football team. The worst thing about the whole shopping episode is that immediately you start picking single foods, each and every human being in the supermarket realizes you are a single brat. It is like being in the news and making the evening newspaper headline. ‘That man in blue jeans in aisle four with a pepper sauce separated recently'. It is something we not only loath but really hate.

OK. You then you move to load the shopping basket with the meals you want for a single person and take the exit as many individuals within the mall are aware of your relationship issues and love situation, and immediately you discover an admirer by the pastas. It can never be the mall's shelf stacker since it is the other single individual who is pouncing on you because it is the singles night! Whoever invented such a joke was not serious. But the fact is that it is clear people can meet everywhere, around the vegetables or carrots each and every day but not in the single's lifetime. It will be weird to tell your children you met over a tin of carrots, while what you want is some true romance in your life.

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