i am content with being single, but there are moments when i wish i'm not. being in qatar sort of tripled the chances of those moments occurring, because the culture itself limits the freedoms that i was accustomed to back home. i don't like going to clubs either and the friends i found here don't really share my interests.

i sometimes get rude stares and/or remarks from locals or others when i take walks alone (at the corniche, souq, malls), even if i am always dressed decently, just because women from my country somehow give this impression of being cheap sl*ts. it saddens me to realize that this reputation is not totally unfounded. this is a country of sexually repressed males (and probably females too) and because of this, i can't dare go out alone late at night and i don't like this kind of limitation.

people at work are mostly married and are either arabs or are from cultures where marriages are usually arranged. they cannot understand the concept of being single at my age, although i am still young. i don't know how to answer everytime some nice lady asks why i'm still not married. and my boss sometimes says that i can be expected to work longer than all the other females at work because i don't have children to look after anyway.

"If you aren't happy single, you won't be happy with someone else."?

sorry, but i don't buy that. it is possible to be happy being single but this cannot go on forever. it is part of human nature to want to reach out to other people.

but what the heck, i'm here for the money after all.