Chapter 16: Being a Great Talent Scout
When you are over thirty, you need to start looking for single people in different places than when you were in your twenties. Finding love in mid-life is different than finding love when we were younger. Remember, when you were young and everywhere you looked there were single people. You went to a party and there were single people in droves. Going to a bar, there were single people on every bar stool. During high school and college, almost everyone on campus was single. You didn’t need to make much of an effort because available single people were all around you. As more and more of your friends got married, there were less single parties to go to on the weekends. The bar crowd started attracting the unattractive. On a day-to-day basis, you were no longer in school surrounded by like-minded singles. Did the well of singles dry up? Absolutely not!
For those of you who are complaining that there aren’t enough single people to choose from, your focus is all wrong. First of all, there is a huge pool of single people in the United States. According the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2005, there were 89.8 million singles in the United States alone. This is 41% of the population over 18 years old. If you are a senior citizen, there is a huge population of senior singles. There is a whopping 14.9 million singles over 65 years old.
Let’s think about this for a minute. If you line up 100 people, chances are, almost half of these people are going to be single. So there is a huge “well” of available singles. Keep this in mind because almost anywhere you go and whatever you are doing there is a strong possibility that you could meet “the one” if that’s where your focus is.



