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People look down on old single guys because either they can't attract anyone, or they are people thinking "single is happiness", and I agree that can be temporarly true but often it's false in the long run.
At all points in life you need "someone" to share memories and experience stuff with - or you become lonley/unhappy. You might not think so now, but you are guaranteed to reach a point in time when that "someone" can no longer be your friends. Friends grow up. Priorities change from you to a partner, or they are virgins and want to play video games and you get bored of them.
Single people while strong at first often end up needy because they lack somebody that really loves them in life. And eventually need to fill that need. As you are young you have parents doing the loving. But eventually they distance themselves and a friend will never love you like a partner can, and you feel empty, even as your out some night with the boys/girls.
Without a partner you eventually become stuck alone and seeking meaning. Maybe you start to meditate, only to find out that you got nothing to live for. To handle this truth, singles turn to self destructive behaviour, just so they can feel something. Single girls often end up having more sex than ever, hoping for someone to fill the emotional gaps she is experiencing. Single guys often have harder to get laid so they turn to drugs and starts watching baseball, telling themselves that what matters is who wins in sport. Both is an attempt to numb the mind from the fact they are just waiting to go to sleep as they have chosen a meaningless exsistance.
Ha, every guy, or girl for that matter, with a family I've seen go through a mid life crisis, must have missed the memo about kids giving life meaning.
I hate to burst your bubble, but existence in general is meaningless.
I should stop this though. We are getting into the area of why I don't preach atheism to people. It's a shitty thing to do to convince someone that their is no afterlife.