Too independent for our own good?

As we all get older and out friends and family are getting married and having babies, you get more pressure from yourself and your family to get on the wagon and start joining in on the wedding/baby trend.I'm not blaming my friends, I just implying that the lifestyle my friends and I live could possibly contribute to us all being single. Think about it, most things you would do with a significant other you can do with your friends, check out a new restaurant, travel, go to a movie, be a date at a wedding, game night, etc. Aside from the physical aspect of a relationship you already have your friends covering all aspects (emotional, social, mental). I look at my group of friends that are single and granted we all want to get married at some point, but in the meantime we haven't been enjoying the ride with our friends till it happens. So I can see why it becomes more difficult to meet someone and let them in when you have already made a comfortable little "nest" for yourself. I do believe that its going to happen when it happens, but at the same time we all need to be proactive about it. Is our independence what prevents us from being in relationships? Has our independence made us forget how to compromise? Or do we know what we want and aren't willing to settle until we find it?

Changes in life...

Have you ever hung out with some friends and thought to yourself “so and so has changed”? I’m sure we’ve all had a moment like that whether it’s with childhood friends, everyday friends, co-workers, who ever it may be, you know what I’m talking about. I guess the question is, have THEY really changed or have YOU changed? Regardless of who changed, change is good right? Life experiences change us, think about when you went away to college and came home for the holidays and met up with some high school friends. Some of them changed and you still got along with them, probably because you went through the same experiences, while others still stayed like there were in high school and you just grow apart. Are the changes and experiences that we go through what actually brings us together and breaks us apart? I understand that we are all individuals with different experiences, stories, personalities and ideas, but don’t you think that within a group of friends you are all friends because you have a common thread? Or is it by default as in person A is friends with person B and person B is friends with person C so person A and person C are now friends? Do friendships like that last when it’s by default? Are you more likely to push through and make it work when it’s friendship by default or more likely to let it go?