What’s the difference between men who find happiness in having a family and the growing number of men who choose to remain single? Is it their personal philosophy—or the way their minds are wired?
My father is a typical example of the former. Even though I’m an adult, he still proudly shows me off in public as his cute daughter.
And somehow, I’ve ended up becoming someone with very little desire to get married.
Back then, there was a prevailing attitude that everyone had to get married—get married, own a home, have children. It was an era when everyone was expected to follow the same path.
These days, society has become more diverse, and it feels like we’ve reached a time when it’s okay to live differently.
Though, like anything, it has its pros and cons.
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I think it comes down to having different ideas of what “happiness” means.
Take a good look at yourself and ask whether you feel happier with stability or excitement. If you strongly value stability, you’re probably better suited to marriage, while if you crave excitement more, you may be better off staying single.
Most people probably don’t seek 100% stability or 100% excitement. Still, I think it’s important to understand which side you lean toward.
If you naturally crave excitement a little more, but choose marriage because of other people’s opinions or because you vaguely think, “That’s just what people normally do,” you may not end up living a very happy life.
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Well, the desire to be with someone you love can sometimes lead to marriage. And while modern society places a strong emphasis on the individual, carrying on the family line is also important.
When you're young, you don't think much about continuing the family line, but once you reach around your father's age, you start thinking about various things.
Rather than seeing an individual life as ending with one person and having little connection to one's family or ancestors, it's more about the idea of carrying the family line from one generation to the next.
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Everything has changed in the smartphone era, hasn’t it?
The smartphone era truly makes anything possible in an instant. It’s an age with barely any fixed assumptions left—an age where nothing seems impossible.
The younger generation has accomplished things this year alone that I never thought I’d see in my lifetime.
Reaching the 100-meter final, beating Germany and Spain in the actual World Cup tournament…
Going around to relatives’ homes in the neighborhood for days to collect New Year’s gift money is a thing of the past.
I’d panic more if I didn’t have my smartphone than if I didn’t have my wallet…
Even the meaning of marriage has changed… It’s hard to believe that people simply couldn’t get married back then.
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I think it comes down to what happens in a person’s life.
Even if someone has no desire to get married, something may happen that makes them suddenly want to. And even people who do want to get married may simply grow older while remaining single.
I don’t think there’s really that much difference in their principles or the way they think.
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