i'm having another of those weird moments where i feel older than i ever have at the same time as feeling like i'm in high school again. ( why, helen? i'm dying to know... )
I think I'm a bit younger than you, and lots of people my age are already getting married, but not to the point that people assume that I'm in the marrying range as well. I understand what you're saying though. A lot of people that I graduated high school with are getting married or are married or are having children. In fact I was overcome with the oddest feeling when I said to one of my roommates that I should take a trip to visit my friend because I haven't seen her baby yet.
In fact, just the other day, my sister felt it would be a good idea to remind me that she got married when she was my age. Back then I thought she was old, but now I'm very much under the impression of "who gets married when they're 21? It's far too young. Just because you stick a 2 in front of your age instead of a 1 doesn't mean that you're old enough to be embarking on challenging life time commitments, or even that you've discovered enough of yourself to know that the person you're marrying is the right person or even that marrying is right for you."
Not everyone has to get married and have children. It doesn't suit people at all.
Of course, given my own long term relationship and permanence and stuff with boyfriend I'm afraid I see my independent, intelligent self heading down that path, but not yet. There are things I need to do first, like grow up. I've long proclaimed that first I have to finish school, and then I have to figure out what sort of career and life I want, and how it is that I want to live. Boyfriend understands this intuitively, which is nice, and which is also why is absolutely okay to be long distance and to lead different lives, and yet at the same time joke about what to name our seven kids.
Which I suppose for most people would be when it gets weird.
But as much as I know people my age who are getting married, to picture myself as Mrs. Boyfriend would be weird, but possibly not so weird 4 years from now.
my brother got married at my age too:) in fact, he'd been married almost a year by now, i think. but i knew i was falling behind his life schedule when i wasn't engaged a couple years ago.
i don't know if i'll eventually get married. the idea is appealing, but i know a marriage takes a lot of work too, and maybe i'm not ready for all that work yet:) but i'm pretty picky about who i date even, so i'm not too worried about marrying some guy just to be married. you know? and sometimes i see what people are saying when they tell me i'm lucky for not having any strings yet. i don't have anyone to plan around but me, which is great when you actually have plans:)
but if i had someone in my life like you do, maybe planning around him wouldn't seem so much like a sacrifice:)
In fact, just the other day, my sister felt it would be a good idea to remind me that she got married when she was my age. Back then I thought she was old, but now I'm very much under the impression of "who gets married when they're 21? It's far too young. Just because you stick a 2 in front of your age instead of a 1 doesn't mean that you're old enough to be embarking on challenging life time commitments, or even that you've discovered enough of yourself to know that the person you're marrying is the right person or even that marrying is right for you."
Not everyone has to get married and have children. It doesn't suit people at all.
Of course, given my own long term relationship and permanence and stuff with boyfriend I'm afraid I see my independent, intelligent self heading down that path, but not yet. There are things I need to do first, like grow up. I've long proclaimed that first I have to finish school, and then I have to figure out what sort of career and life I want, and how it is that I want to live. Boyfriend understands this intuitively, which is nice, and which is also why is absolutely okay to be long distance and to lead different lives, and yet at the same time joke about what to name our seven kids.
Which I suppose for most people would be when it gets weird.
But as much as I know people my age who are getting married, to picture myself as Mrs. Boyfriend would be weird, but possibly not so weird 4 years from now.
Ha ha, let's see if he lasts that long.
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i don't know if i'll eventually get married. the idea is appealing, but i know a marriage takes a lot of work too, and maybe i'm not ready for all that work yet:) but i'm pretty picky about who i date even, so i'm not too worried about marrying some guy just to be married. you know? and sometimes i see what people are saying when they tell me i'm lucky for not having any strings yet. i don't have anyone to plan around but me, which is great when you actually have plans:)
but if i had someone in my life like you do, maybe planning around him wouldn't seem so much like a sacrifice:)
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