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Why bother dating someone when u know you'll have to break up sooner or later and likely never to see each other again?
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<p>I don't think people go into relationships expecting to be with others for years and years and eventually marry with the onset of college and graduation breaking the lifelong process and the nonexistant contract. </p>
<p>Rather, it's an experience and as others pointed out, practice for relationships in the future. I think it's just packaged into the teenager/highschool/growing up process.</p>
<p>Ivypoison, check out your own first few replies on this thread.</p>
<p>Spikemom has a really good point. Why visit other countries? It's unlikely you'll ever live there. Why learn to cook? You might give yourself some nasty foodborne illness in the process by mishandling meats. Why learn to drive? If no one drove, thousands more people would be alive today. In fact, why post on CC? It's not like major decisions are really made because someone on an online forum with the handle "karthikkito" told you so.</p>
<p>Life is not about the why's, but the why not's.</p>
<p>Study hard, play hard, do what you love and do it well.</p>
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why don't we all do drugs then cause it probably feels good.
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<p>This is easy: Short term vs. long term. In the short term, drugs offer a pleasureable experience. In the long term, however, they're addictive, costly, and damaging to your body and state of being. So, most of us choose long term over short term.</p>
<p>And using the long term vs short term argument, you can successfully argue why a relationship isn't a waste of time. In the short term, it can be quite enjoyable. In the long run, either a) it'll become something more, or b) it'll end at some point, you'll move on, and it won't matter.</p>