The Great Set-up (and subsequent let down)

I could not begin to count how many times people have tried to set me up with others...and I can't stand it. I started to think why this is so vile of a thing to me...after all, shouldn't I rely on others to make a huge decision on who I should marry? Hopefully you caught onto my sarcasm. I don't mind being introduced to new people...in fact, I really like meeting people and it suits my outgoing personality. But set-ups are not my thing. And I have come to a few conclusions about all of it:

1. People who try to set you up make you feel like you can't do it yourself, as if incapable of meeting new people and making that decision yourself, so "Let me just do it for you."
2. People make an awful lot of assumptions about what type of person you want to be with...or would be good with...emphasis on the "awful lot"
   
3. Awkward. Just...awkward
4. The pressure is on...everyone watching...wanting this to work so they feel successful in their matchmaking attempts
5. People assume you are constantly in a state of unhappiness if you are single. Which is only true 50% of the time...singleness has its benefits (see future entries for more information on this...you could learn something, I'm telling ya). This assumption often makes a single feel like their life is pitiful, which it is not. Seriously.
   

I told several of my friends that if they ever have someone that I *must* meet, that they just make the introduction without telling either of us what's going down, so the awkwardness and expectations don't exist.

So it all comes down to this...Matchmaker, matchmaker...PLEASE don't make me a match. I can handle it...and so can God.