I am a hot commodity.

Recent events (namely, everyone on the face of the earth becoming engaged) have led me to reconsider a topic we discussed in my Law & Economics class a few years ago. At the time, I was 23 and in a relationship, so it didn’t really concern me. Now that I have reached—and passed—the ripe old age of 25.3, I am an old maid, according to the census bureau. However, if you consider the dating pool from a market analysis perspective, I am becoming more and more valuable—until I reach my early 30s, when approximately ten percent of people my age will be getting divorced. In summary, my stock value is rising, and will continue to do so for several more years, at which point the supply of potential husbands will increase again, and I can (hopefully) save myself the emotional and monetary pain of that early-30s divorce.

At least, this is what I tell myself at all of these weddings.

I drew a beautiful graph to illustrate this, but unfortunately I am scannerless. However, this sums it up nicely.