Wow!  What a powerful question.  Thanks for posing that.  Oh and welcome to the Poetri.com message boards.  Everyone say hi to Ab. 

I can't really comment on what is so good about being single cause I am married.  If I start commenting on that, than my wife might punch me.  I know I would be upset if she started talking about what is great about being single.  Anyhoo, thre are a million single beautiful people on this site and I am sure they can run off a list of things that are great about being single.  Believe me...singleness has it's advantages.

So, people...please share with us...enlighten us all the beauty of being single.

I WROTE THE COMMENT ABOVE ME, I HAVE TO REMEMBER TO SIGN ON TO MY OWN NAME, SORRY KARIN!!!

I absolutely loath being single. The "hunt" holds no thrill for me, I no longer need to validate myself through others. My self esteem is no longer predicated on my ability to get a girl/womans phone number, nor do I "need" the conquest to prove my virility or sexual preference (I have a friend who everyone but him is pretty sure he's gay, so he is extremely promiscuous trying to "prove" he's not. The sad thing is, no one cares if he is or not but him). 

God granted me a companion, someone to grow old with, someone to share not only the grand ups and downs of life but the simple pleasures of everyday life; The look from across a room, someones hand to hold, the effect her smile had on me, the smell of her hair when I kissed her neck in that "special place" that sent tingles all over her, someone that really cared that my day had been hard no matter how hard hers was, someone to laugh cry and share in our children's triumphs and tragedies. I threw all of that away because of selfishness, I could not see beyond my own inner turmoil. So blinded by my own selfcenteredness I destroyed the second most important relationship there could be on the face of this earth; the first is with God of course, the second is with someone to grow old with a companion, my best friend, my lover, my wife.

Now the sentence for my crime (of wasting a gift from God) is being alone, single, thrust into a world of mask and people trying desperately to find what I threw away, in whatever way they can. Alcohol to mask the pain of self humiliation and emptiness of anonymous sex (both male and female) with someone met in a bar. I, in my new life in Christ can not do that, having known what sex is like with someone I deeply love and loved me back the physical aspect doesn't hold a candle to the spiritual and emotional "orgasms" of truly making love. I would rather be single and celibate than to cheapen the experience of having someone, flesh of my flesh a partner till death do us part. Loneliness is my nightmare, the writer that said "it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all" is a fool, I would much rather be ignorant of what I am missing or rather what I lost. Ignorance is bliss in this case. I would not trade one second, one moment of my memories, even fights and arguments with her for all the "fun of being single". It was not good for man to be alone so God created for him a companion. I wasted Gods gift to me I earned being alone, single, my personal hell.

CB, you always take my thoughts right out of my head.

Being single isn't for me, but right now I'm dealing with it. I think my biggest problem is that I'm in love with being in love. There's nothing like giving your heart to someone and knowing that you have there's in return. Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Why? Because God is Love. So even though I'm physically single, I still have an unconditional love coming my way. That is why some people are still miserably single. It's because they're so busy looking for love in the world that they don't see the Love they already have.

Anyway, I'm rambling. Ya'll know what I'm trying to say. At least I hope you do cause I lost myself somewhere in that...lol