Are You Available?

Remember Availability?

Cast your mind back about ten years or so.

"And I just get the feeling that he's not available to be in a relationship right now."

"And I really needed him to support me when I was dealing with all that stress at work, but he just wasn't available."

'Member that?

It was quite the buzzword.

Just like 'Inappropriate.' Man, did I hate Inappropriate. "That's just not appropriate." Luckily, when 'Thinking Outside The Box' came along, Inappropriate slipped out the back door.

Inappropriate sounds like you're talking about what to wear to a formal dinner. And Unavailable sounds like you've already got something on your schedule for that night.

But what happened to Available? Where'd it go? Did we all get with it and make bloody well sure that we were always Available to our friends and lovers?

Doubtful, huh?

Or maybe, after finding that all the important poeple in our lives were Unavailable in one way or another, we decided to learn to rely on ourselves. And maybe, we decided that all those things that were competing with our own sweet selves for the time and attention of our nearest and dearest were, in fact, what made our nearest and dearest dear.

Adieu, Available. You won't be missed by those of us here at Singletails.

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