Comments | jenmarie827: If I were older, it'd be reason for a mid-life crisis

jenmarie827

If I were older, it'd be reason for a mid-life crisis

Dec 07, 2005 23:46

I just went through Myspace and searched through my high school to see who I could find after a few old friends found me there. In searching, I found that AT LEAST 75% of the graduates of 2002 are either married or engaged. How sad is that? Not that they're all happy, but that I'm so far behind lol. People get married so early now it seems. They're ( Read more... )

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trav_himself December 8 2005, 17:34:49 UTC

C'mon Jen, you're not that old! Just because some of your high school buddies are getting married doesn't mean that you are behind. 40% of women and 30% of men have never been married by ages 25-29.

Sorry, I just felt compelled to drop that fact, since it will probably be on my sociology final in two hours. Adios.

jenmarie827 December 9 2005, 04:51:07 UTC

I actually don't feel that old. Older than I act sometimes, lol. The whole thing just made me think, that's all. I need to be changing a few things sometime in the near future for things to work out better in the far future. Like stop letting Miles live with me, haha. But I already knew that.

Do you know what makes me mad though? That Mike and Brad are saying I'm a horrible friend to Miles, saying that I treat him so badly, when in fact I'm the only one keeping him from being homeless. When he asked to stay with them after all of his family said no, and offered to pay them a portion of rent to stay with them (on their couch), they pretty much said hell no. I don't know if Steph told you about all that...

Anyway, hope you did well on the soc final. I would say good luck but you've probably already taken it by now :)

triplered December 8 2005, 20:29:17 UTC

Don't be in a rush to get married. Most people aren't ready to make that kind of decision at our age. You're always changing, but you're changing at an amazing pace when you're young. In fact, I'd wager that most of the people from your highschool that are getting married now will get a divorce. Obviously, it doesn't always happen that way (your parents are an example of that), but in most cases, getting married young is just plain stupid. People might think they're in a relationship of everlasting love, but like I said, at our age, you change a lot. We still have a lot of growing up to do.

jenmarie827 December 9 2005, 04:52:56 UTC

Oh I'm not by any means in a rush to get married. If I were in a serious relationship right now and was asked to get married, I would have to respectfully decline and wait a few years before being able to make that decision (and if he was willing to spend the rest of his life with me, he'd be able to wait).
I was just astonished last night by the sheer number of people jumping into things right now.
Believe me, that entry was in not written out of wanting to immediately get married. It was actually written more due to circumstance, which some people who read it might be able to understand. Hard to explain...