With seemingly everybody from the graduating class of 2002 getting married, the pressure is on for us to grow up and settle down. People feel this pressure whether they are in a relationship that doesn't seem to progress anywhere, or freshly single, or even those that feel as if they have been cursed with an eternally single existance
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Perhaps it was the comfort at the wedding knowing that many other people, like me, weren't read for marriage yet. Funny because just a couple months ago I thought I was. Maybe I am, I just haven't found the right one yet. Maybe I have. Who knows.
The glass box analogy works quite well, I was thinking about that as I wrote that. It is a very confusing time in our lives right now, far beyond the teenage transition, many of us still feel that youthful vitality within ourselves, but also the societal pressure of settling down and becoming a "responsible adult."
You know a lot of what is going on in my head, and I'm sure can understand perhaps even a bit more from here. I sure as heck hope we have time to hang out, I leave August 13th to go back down to "the good life," or so they call it. Can't wait to see you again!
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