Age and the problems of dating

Have you ever wondered how it was you did, during your teenage years, to have a constant dating scene? Then it was so easy to find someone to date, to establish a relationship was a common thing, but as time pases and we grow older, dating becomes more and more complicated, it's as if single people just dissapeared; some can be accounted for, loke the ones that are either married or attached to someone, but what about all the rest? is every man or woman of your age married, attached or otherwise engaed? I don't think so; in fact, I have friends, of both genders, who are single and looking, but they just can't seem to find someone to date, and that has me thinking of what are the changes that bring about this "loneliness".

For one part, there is a reduced number of "available" people, but on the other hand, the spaces where you can go looking for a person to date become greatly reduced, even if you take into account the pedople who go to bars looking to hook up with someone for more than a one night stand. During teenage years, you crash into parties uninvited, you go prowling around high school looking for that someone, or you just don't really care about the results, you're not looking for the "Perfect One" just for "Someone", and thus you're nos scared of talking to a person you meet at the mall or other such palces, even if theoretically teenagers are scared of facing the world, and run away from each other as often as not, but the truth is that they are braver than us, who claim we've overcome those "childish" fears, but still we can't muster enough courage to go looking, just waiting to find someone, even if it's no the "Perfect One", we're so scared of making one fatal mistake that we don't date as often, and often wonder why not...