I would say this stage if from 18-23 years old single, then there’s the over 25 single when things start to change a bit.
When your single your focus is all on you. Your wants, desires, plans dreams
You wake up and alone, no one to think about, you have your coffee and start your day. No concern for any one else. What do you want for lunch, what your doing later that night.
You have an apartment because that’s all you need or want. You rent because hey who wants to take care of a house and if there a leak in the roof do you really want to be responsible for that.
You are transitory, not building a legacy because you have no one to hand it over to so why bother building if there’s no one to build for.
Your like a back packer with a tent that travels and has a bunch of experiences and this is great for a season.
This is a natural part of life. However being single forever isn’t natural. Staying 17 year old isn’t natural.
When your single you begin to find out what is important to you. Do you wan to go to college, do you want to stay in college, do you want to start a business.
Are you going to follow what your parents tuft you? Do you believe wha your parents taught you. Do you care at this point or are you just into partying right now and will worry about all the serious stuff later, much, much later.
You can be that single person who is very focused and working and going to school all the time and don’t take the time to really figure what who you are and what kind of person you want to be.
You can just be the party animal and waste your time, energies, affection (body) giving away some of the most important stuff without realizing it. Wasting away your time, your only young once! Giving away your affection to people who don’t value it. Giving away your body to random people because hey everyone is doing it, so it must be right, right?