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" Taylor Swift has taken a lot of flak for her open talk about her past relationships (of which there have been several high-profile ex-boyfriends), but I for one can&amp;#x27;t blame a girl for talking about her love life, especially when everyone wants to know about her love life. Admit it, we&amp;#x27;re all kind of waiting to see how it all turns out. Taylor included. When asked about her love life for the nine millionth time, she said: &amp;quot;I have no idea if I&amp;#x27;m going to get married or be single forever or have a family or just be on my own. You know, paint in a cottage by the ocean by myself. &amp;quot;I just have no idea, and I&amp;#x27;m kind of into that. You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it&amp;amp;#8212;and that&amp;#x27;s great, daydreaming is wonderful&amp;amp;#8212;but you can never plan your future.&amp;quot; Preach. No matter what you think of the girl and her angsty guitar, you have to admit that&amp;#x27;s a smart attitude&amp;amp;#8212;and not just for single women either. Nobody really knows what the future holds (although if you do, tell me everything!), so we all have to be OK with the uncertainty and the possibilities. It&amp;#x27;s a mentality I&amp;#x27;m working really hard to adopt myself, and if you&amp;#x27;re with me, I&amp;#x27;ll share my new way of implementing it: When I&amp;#x27;m mentally freaking out, thinking, OMG, I&amp;#x27;m 31! What if I&amp;#x27;m still single when I&amp;#x27;m 45? What if I never have kids? Gahhhhh! (don&amp;#x27;t worry, I only do this on, like, an hourly basis) I have a new question I ask myself to calm down and shut up my inner worrywart. So what? It&amp;#x27;s not that those things don&amp;#x27;t matter to me; they do. But let&amp;#x27;s say age 45 rolls around and I&amp;#x27;m still the resident single lady. Will I look back and think, Gee, good thing I spent the last 14 years worrying about this. That was super fun and productive!? I think you see my point here. If I do end up single forever, even if it&amp;#x27;s not what I hope for, I still want to look back and remember that I enjoyed my life, not just wasted it worrying about what might happen. And come to think of it, painting in a cottage by the ocean by myself sounds pretty great&amp;amp;#8212;if you substitute &amp;quot;painting&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;watching Golden Girls reruns and drinking pina coladas.&amp;quot; Do you worry about how your love life will turn out? Do you have any tricks to keep yourself from freaking out? Or do you not ever think about it all? Other thoughts on the single life: *The Relationship Thing I Did That You Guys Are Gonna Be So Proud Of *How Important Is It for a Single Woman to Have Single Friends? *Seriously, Is Feeling Bad About Wanting a Boyfriend a Real Thing for You Kids Today? Photo: Film Magic"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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