/lit/ - Literature

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Society places far too much weight on romantic relationships; I don't want that.

My ideal world is a tight-knit community of friends and family. After work my days would be spent in the company of like-minded individuals, and we would grow and adapt within a mutually beneficial social framework.

Our groups would resemble the size hunter-gatherer tribes of old, because biologically what really has changed? Close-knit bands of 50-100 people would live out their lives in the company of people who care for them. Their familiarity would span generations, without arbitrary nuclear cores superseding everything else.

Friends. I want platonic friends to be the bedrock of my social strata. I want to know people from different generations; I've never had a good talk with an elder outside of my family, and currently I don't know how I would fix that.

The friends that I do have are pairing up and leaving the world behind. They form their lives in systems of coupled-parts, and I don't think there's room for me in that. Is my relationship with others lesser, just because I don't foresee sex or romance in it? Is there no form of bond that can be formed without exchanging bodily fluids?

-T. a frustrated aro-ace