The Twenties. The New Selfish Society.

I love going to the bar with my friends. Not only for the cheap drinks and great conversation, but the conversations I get to eavesdrop on. One night, I overheard this young girl talking about her relationship with her boyfriend. Basically, they were both young busy people who barely had time for one another. According to her, they we're both very much in love with each other and wanted to make it work. But here's her definition of making it work, which I'm sure she didn't run past her partner. She would "pretend" everything is fine in her relationship and tell her partner that she didn't mind that they barely saw one another. But in reality she hated it and to satisfy her needs would see other people on the side. When her friend suggested and open relationship she nearly choked on her drink and said I would die if I found out he was seeing someone else. When did we all become so selfish? When did playing with one's heart become so easy? When did we all stop learning how to make sacrifices. The real scary part about the conversation is that 4 out of her 5 friends agreed. When did selfishness become so common? I also feel like we really forgot what a relationship really means. Isn't it suppose to be when two people commit to only one another? Not fall in love with one person, tell them that you love them but continue to sleep with other people. I mean what the hell is going on? I needed to know how common this really was so I spoke to a few friends about it. I'm not saying that all my friends agreed but the majority agreed, if it's just sex and nothing more then there is no harm in sleeping with another person you don't have feelings for. This saddens me and makes me really dislike my generation. Why is the body no longer a temple? Doesn't commitment also mean physical commitment?
 I don't need to make a clever long winded answer for this one. If you don't have enough time for your partner and are not willing to make any sacrifices then you don't need to be in a relationship. Not only that but no one should be sleeping with more than one person, single or not. I'm starting to realize this is why we have so many STD's floating around, so many failed marriages and so many "baby momma's". Is my generation ever going to get it together? Or do we just get older, continue to make the same mistakes and set a bad example for the generation the follows? I'm no rocket scientist but I think I already know the answer.