Dating: What's the Point?

I think that dating is a necessary perhaps sometimes being evil, but always important. I think that if you do not date that you are more likely to get a divorce than people who have dated and fought and really dealt with each other for sometime before making the ultimate commitment. I think the majority of my peers and "contemporaries" do not always date to find their life partner but because it is something to do. Although between the two I would always prefer to date before I commit to a marriage. The "hook-up" culture in schools is some what of an epidemic or a vicious circle that people participate in to fit in and everyone eventually gets involved with it at some point. When our generation cannot hide behind a screen they tend to hide behind anything they can find including drugs, alcohol, peer pressure, or even a desperate desire to just fit in. We as a group of people need to step out from behind our screens without the help of anything else and have a conversation together, in person, face to face.