Are we ALL settling?

Everyone I know settles for something.

They settle for mediocre jobs they know they are dying to have left 2 years ago, they settle for boyfriends they know is not too good for them, they settle for the love and life because soceity dictates that they need to behave in a certain way.

Fear seems to drive most of us into conforming to soceity's needs. When one ages and havent accomplish what they set out for in life, we settle. Settle for the job for fear of not getting a better one, settling for love with a boyfriend that isn't the love of your life, and getting married or having kids not because you want to but because you need to.

Its sad to see many still walking down the same path, especially when it comes to love, should you really settle for what you have now? Are there no one else out there worthy of being the love of your life? Or is that only a fairy tale?