Casual?

Lately I have been preoccupied with a concept of casual or serial dating and people who prefer to do that. We all know the type: having several dates at the same time, unwilling/unable to stick with just one at the time. I would like to say that it's just another British thing but unfortunately it seems to be more like a global trend that I have never really understood. How on earth you people manage to do that, and more importantly, why do you wanna in a first place?

I have never been able to be interested in more than one person at a time. Neither would I have the time or energy to do that. Well, that's if you wanna do something else as well like working, studying, going out with your friends and having a good time. But most importantly, I've never seen the point of doing it. It cannot be that you need to figure out your feelings towards certain person, cos I can't see how seeing other people would help you to see yourself and your emotions clearer. Okey, there might be one exception in this: the actual feelings might not hit you until you have seen him/her with someone else. But otherwise, is it really too much to ask that you give your attention to one person at a time?

Right, now some of you might be thinking about pulling out the seriousness card and ask that if it's nothing serious why shouldn't you fool around. Well, I think it has nothing to do with the seriousness or deepness of the relationship but everything to do with respecting that other person and giving him/her the time that it takes to get to know them and what is that you want from him/her. It might take two hours or two months but still. That cannot be too much to ask, right?

There is yet another thing I still haven't figured out. I just dunno whether it is just the way certain people are or is it the whole society as it is. What I mean is if the society and the whole concept of consuming everything is changing people's behaviour and dating habits and thus making them consume other people as well. For me people seems to reluctant to close any doors or miss any opportunities and they see other people as disposable as the shirt they just bought from Topshop.

So, to go back to what I asked earlier whether there really is a point in serial dating. In my opinion, if you wanna date more than one person at a time and therefore actively look for others to replace him/her that really means that you don't wanna be with that certain person in the first place. And thus I cannot find any reason to carry on seeing that person. Am I making any sense?