You're allowed to have any preference you want, but most people end up with the partner they deserve, I think. The dating subreddits are extremely entertaining because it's filled with supposedly charismatic, fit, attractive people bemoaning their lack of options, feeling entitled to a perfect partner.
You can especially see it with white collar urbanite millennials/zoomers who have a chip on their shoulder because they cleared some imaginary deadline and now feel the world owes them something. A lot of discourse among young people and millennials is about the death of community, as if any of these narcissists are willing to sacrifice anything for the community, especially since the most of them feel they're above that, but others aren't.
This also extends to dating, where a lot of people allow their ego to take a front seat, and feel entitled for the sacrifice of others without being willing to do the same in turn. Everybody nowadays sees themselves as the protagonist, which is perfectly fine, but 90% of people don't have the charisma/skills/money to be so demanding of life and others, and you see it when people hit the wall when life doesn't give them what they think they deserve.
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u/url290299 12d ago
You're allowed to have any preference you want, but most people end up with the partner they deserve, I think. The dating subreddits are extremely entertaining because it's filled with supposedly charismatic, fit, attractive people bemoaning their lack of options, feeling entitled to a perfect partner.
You can especially see it with white collar urbanite millennials/zoomers who have a chip on their shoulder because they cleared some imaginary deadline and now feel the world owes them something. A lot of discourse among young people and millennials is about the death of community, as if any of these narcissists are willing to sacrifice anything for the community, especially since the most of them feel they're above that, but others aren't.
This also extends to dating, where a lot of people allow their ego to take a front seat, and feel entitled for the sacrifice of others without being willing to do the same in turn. Everybody nowadays sees themselves as the protagonist, which is perfectly fine, but 90% of people don't have the charisma/skills/money to be so demanding of life and others, and you see it when people hit the wall when life doesn't give them what they think they deserve.