"It's one thing to feel incomplete, but quite another if you don't know how to be alone"

This sentence struck me deep down. I'm very sure of how to be alone, but I'm not sure of how to be complete. And that thought rang a bell too. Is this completion a matter of delusionized thought we gave ourselves? Do we really need to complete ourselves, or some of us are already complete?

I have a friend, one of my besties. She told me that she reached a point in time where finding a partner doesn't matter anymore. If she does find someone then its a bonus. She's rather good looking, confident and very sociable. Not to mention there isn't a time where I know of that she doesn't have a guy that's hot on her heels. Right now she's saving up to buy an apartment for herself. A private one, for either investment or for her to live. I find this thought rather engaging.

Do we really need to bind ourselves to someone? Why can't it be a very close friend? Why do people think of marriage as an invisible bind that bound us to someone? Why is it that love can't be shared and cherish by all? Is it that selfish thinking that we can only have something or someone only for ourselves and not for others? Or maybe it's just that my thoughts are too open for such a tradition for society to adapt?

The more I think of it, the more I realize that the world we live in are governed by unseen traditional propaganda that held each person like a leash would on a dog. People are afraid to break loose or to challenge the one that holds the leash...or maybe it's just ignorance.. Maybe it's just here in this strict Asian culture.