If you are someone who has been single for more than a year, you know what it’s truly like living the single life. Although it can get lonely at times, most of the time being single isn’t all that bad.

When you’re not in a relationship, you don’t have to worry about any of that sort of drama. You also don’t have to feel guilty for going out without your SO. Other than the reasons it’s fun to be single, you learn a lot about yourself as well when you’ve been single for so long.

When you start “talking” to someone new, and it doesn’t work out, it’s really easy for you to get over them. You don’t dwell on something that could have been, but never was. Once you’ve been single for so long, you start to become really independent, so you don’t find the need to be in a relationship. Other people who are newly single, want to be single for a while, but often they subconsciously try to find someone to fill an emptiness in their heart. If you’re someone who has been without a SO for a while, you don’t find the need to fill this emptiness because it’s already been filled with the happiness of yourself.

You’ve learned to appreciate a lot more things about yourself. You learn who you are, and what type of person you want to be. You’re not caught up in planning your life out according to what your boyfriend or girlfriend is doing. You have goals and you have a life plan and you want to get married someday, but at the moment everything in your plan involves solely yourself.

Also, you’ll start to learn what makes you happy. A lot of times in a relationship, we feel that it’s the person we are with who makes us happy, and without them we are unhappy. However, when you’re single, you figure out activities that make you happy. You also spend more time with your friends and family, and you find that they are the ones who truly make you happy because they’re less likely to ever leave you.

You love to go out and have fun with your friends and meet knew people, but you also love to have a lot of downtime to yourself. You’ll start to appreciate being alone because you have been alone for so long. You get time to sit and think to yourself, and do your own thing, without someone constantly checking up on you or you checking up on someone else. I know I said you’ve been alone, but you really haven't. And you know that. You know that you’re not alone, and there are a lot of people around you who love you, and you never feel you’re alone.

Yes, it would be fun to be in a relationship, but at the moment being single is all you know. Being single at the moment is all you want. At times you think it would be nice to be in a relationship, but then you realize how much work it is, and how happy you are, and you start to forget what it’s like being in a relationship. Maybe at some point you’ll feel like you’re ready for a relationship, but at the moment you’re very content with where you are, and that’s OK.