This is an awful video to a great song. Poor Katy Perry, really. What a nightmare to have to go through a divorce in the public eye, meanwhile your ex husband is bashing you and already sleeping with other women. Honestly, at this point I often ask myself "what's the point of getting married?" With 60% of all marriages ending in divorce, what is the point? The idea of Happily Ever After is a fairy tale packaged to all little girls in the form of Disney movies. Girls grow up thinking that "one day their prince will come" and life will be great. Then we live real life and find out that when our prince comes, he also comes with a drinking problem and communication issues.

Marriage is work, relationships are work and if two people aren't both willing to work at it, then it will fail. It's easy to point the finger at one person, but it takes two. I get asked a lot why I am single. Out of all my friends, I am the girl who is perpetually single. I've only had two serious relationships in my life. Sure I've dated here and there, but I don't believe in wasting time. Mine or someone else's. I would never date someone just to have a person there to spend time with. There's a saying in Spanish "Mejor sola que mal acompaniada," which translates into "better solo than with bad company." I have seen so many people stay in awful relationships because they are scared to leave or believe they will never find someone else. I think being in a relationship that is going nowhere is hell. Even if breaking up is hard to do, it's better to be miserable on your own than to be miserable in the company of another person who is miserable. I have great friends, a great family, and I don't need to have a boyfriend to boost my self-esteem. I've never believed in bouncing from relationship to relationship. If you are bouncing from relationship to relationship how can you grow as a person and not commit the same mistakes you committed in your previous relationships?

I do think about marriage sometimes, and I really don't think I can see myself making such a commitment. Both of my serious ex-boyfriends turned out to be something different than what I thought I knew them as. I hate that feeling. I hate investing so much to try to make things work while the other person can care less. I hate that feeling of being taken for granted and unappreciated, it's the worst. I don't buy into the "happily ever after" fairy tale. How can you make a promise to love someone until the day you die? That's like saying I will always love Ice Cream. What happens if one day ice cream does me wrong and keeps me throwing up all night? I would probably stop loving ice cream! I can't imagine going through a divorce after 25 years of marriage. How do you move on? I know everything worth anything in this life is worth the risk. I've taken huge risks in my life, but risks I can control and I've been in the drivers seat of. I really am not interested in taking such a huge risk as getting married and then divorced. I've taken a risk by giving up everything in pursuit of a degree in medicine...That's a big enough risk for me.