Acharya Prashant states that we are forcefully made to believe that the purpose of life is to chase a man or a woman. The highest possible ideal presented to us is to spend our life with a nice and right person, which is what is called "settling down." This ideal is ingrained in our minds from a very early age and refuses to leave us even when we are 80 or 90. Life is not seen as being for a noble cause, liberation, knowledge, or exploration, but for romance, for having somebody's hand in your hand. Life is considered meaningful only when you have the right and perfect person with you. This conditioning makes it impossible for us to even imagine a life that is not welded to somebody else's. The speaker equates wedding with welding, which is why there is so much fire in it. He finds it scary that most people would be frightened by the idea of spending their entire life without being hitched to a person of the other gender. This feeling, he asserts, does not come from the body; it is not natural or genetic. This kind of feeling is not found in animals, who may form pairs but only for a while, until the next mating season. This concept of a welded relationship does not exist in nature. This idea, the speaker explains, surely comes from society, not from biology. And from where in society does it come? It comes from our avenues of entertainment. He points to songs on YouTube, noting that the most-watched channels and songs are necessarily about man and woman. The entire world is watching this. Whether in the East or the West, this is what we are constantly crooning: "Where is my man? Where is my woman?" This is the reason why, the day you turn 12, you start looking for a partner. The speaker has heard that even kids aged six and eight have boyfriends and girlfriends these days. This is because the mass culture through media is now reaching them even earlier. They think the highest possible thing in life is a boyfriend or girlfriend, and if you have that, you have succeeded. With such an ideal, he questions how one can ever have the courage to walk alone. He clarifies that walking alone does not mean you cannot be in a relationship; it means being free from the compulsion to be in one. You can be in a relationship out of your freedom, but that is not the case for most people, who are in relationships not because of freedom but because of compulsion. This is why there are so many husband-wife jokes—to mitigate the suffering and laugh at one's own sorry situation.