1. When going out with friends and/or family, there's no need to be texting someone. There's no one who's expectantly waiting for your texts who will be crushed if you ignore them.
2. Plenty of time for your friends. This is a big one. When you're single, you really have the time to check in with friends you might not often see. You also have the time and emotional capability to be there for close friends when they need some support. And finally, you can spend more dough on their Christmas gift now that you don't have to shell out a certain appropriate amount of cash for a significant other.
3. Single life really pushes you to see the world differently. You have the time and the space to get to know yourself well. What personalities click with yours? Which personalities clash against yours? Who makes your overall quality of life better, and who makes it more of a struggle? Are you keeping a friend just because you've made a habit of hanging out with them, even when you'd rather not? Getting a fresh perspective on who is and is not worth your time is tremendously helpful. It will give you the freedom and the understanding to truly decide which friendships are worth keeping.
4. Being single is a time to truly cultivate yourself. In doing so, you may realize new passions. You may also rediscover hobbies or passions that you may have laid aside to hang out with your ex when you were together. This will help you rediscover yourself as a person and reestablish your self-confidence (and perhaps, reestablish your overall faith in humanity).
5. When was the last time you took the chance to introduce yourself to that new girl in your class, or the new guy in your lab group? In the process of rebuilding and rediscovering yourself, you'll most definitely come across new people. Remember to be open to meeting new people, and not to get frustrated if you meet someone who kills your vibes. For every rotten soul out there, there are five people who are happy to make a new friend.
6. Having the time to celebrate holidays and special moments with your own family is, perhaps, one of the best parts of being single. For adults in most serious relationships, holidays are sometimes dreadful, as it's rough to balance visits to family evenly. Even when people try hard to spend equal time with both families, parents often have feelings of dread for having to "share" the holiday with their child's significant other's family. When you're single, you always get to spend your holidays with your own family, if you wish. Also, there's no need to get "shared" gifts from relatives (so that means more for you, on a selfish note).
7. Here's the most obvious advantage to being single. You can browse Tinder in your free time, flirt with that cutie at the campus post office who sells you stamps, and allow yourself to freely crush on dudes, all guilt-free. You can talk to guys on Tinder on your own free time and close the application and get back to your life when you get busy. There's no obligation to be in constant communication with people you crush on or talk to.
This also gives you a real chance to figure out exactly what you're looking for in a mate (and exactly what you're NOT looking for, too). Not into smokers? Fine. Put that on your profile. Not down for a hook-up? Make that the first line of your bio. You do you. Above all, make sure that whoever you do spend your precious free moments talking to is respectful. Otherwise, ditch them (on Tinder, you can just un-match them to get rid of them. Yay!)
