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In my culture your suppose to get married or think about a relationship after you graduate from college with a degree. You can't even speak about a boyfriend when your in your teens because it said to lose your focus.If you have a boyfriend or fall in love you some magically have a baby. These things happen if you let it or worse if your parents don't allow to experience these things.Well if you don't try things out or just don't love anyone at all, how will you love and appreciate life. Things like this can make you unhappy and very lonely.Perfect examples are some of those rich celebrities. You would think that with all that money in the world they would be happy.Wrong! Internally and mentally their suffering, lonely, miserable, and very unhappy. Why, because money can't buy you true happiness and true love.I bet they would trade anything just to be in love truly.
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You've got a start to an inquiry into your culture's (what culture is it, by the way?) restriction on dating before you graduate from college. How widespread is this belief in your culture? How many people really follow it? I think you ask some interesting questions that could lead to interesting essays if you develop them. For instance:
- you ask whether one will learn to "love and appreciate life" if you don't have a boyfriend. What about this relationship leads to this type of learing? When would you say is the best time to experience ths type of relationship? One could also turn this question around and wonder why is it we see the boyfriend/girlfriend relationship as the only place where one learns such things. Is it impossible to learn to love and appreciate life through other types of relationships? why is love always assumed to be romantic love?
- you assocate being unhapppy with being lonely. can one avoid being lonely and be happy without a boyfriend/girlfriend? If so, what about the boyfriend/girlfriend relationship is different than that between, for instance, close friends?
- your example of rich celebrities is a decent example of money not being able to buy happiness, but what does it have to do with marriage or relationships? does it have something to do with an assumption that the purpose of college is mainly to get a higher income? could one see college as servign other functions that wouldn't leave you lonely and miserable?
- you group together the ideas that money can't buy you "true happiness or true love." Is being in love always associated with happiness? Is it possible to be in love and not be happy?
I look forward to seeing your revision.
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