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Jan 09, 2007 22:11

So I got back to CO today and found a stack of Christmas cards waiting for me! Hurrah for mail! (Too bad I was a bad person and didn't mail any cards. I'll make up for that somehow.) But contained within the messages were announcements for two more weddings! Ack! Congrats to them, but wow. Everytime I think I'm just where I want to be, I'm ( Read more... )

i'm old

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mmleadinglady January 10 2007, 05:26:51 UTC

I totally hear you. A couple of days ago, I got an email that my friend Adam got engaged to his longtime girlfriend on New Year's Eve - so now, I am the only person from the Class of 99 at church that isn't married with children or engaged - far from both actually. While I am looking forward to grad school and building a great career that I actually love, I still feel wistful that I'm not doing that with a partner and achieving all those social milestones (engagement, marriage, buying a house, babies, etc). There has to be a balance - I just haven't reached it yet.

mmleadinglady January 10 2007, 11:04:31 UTC

Yeah, I hear both of you on this one, too. I have several friends who are engaged, married, parents . . . Sometimes it makes me wonder if I've made a mistake somewhere along the line. Then I remember that there's a lot about my life that I really like and that a significant other wouldn't fit very neatly into the picture right now. And a child definitely, definitely, definitely wouldn't!! "To everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven." Ecclesiastes 3:1. They're hard words sometimes.
Ellen

royalgeekg January 10 2007, 18:54:00 UTC

Tyranny of the shoulds!!!

But yah, I understand the thought...one of my ridiculously impractical and silly concerns is that all the good guys will be taken by the time I'm ready to settle and I'll be stuck with the assholes and tools...but then I tell myself that at least I won't have to make a decision; whichever one I pick, he's bound to be an asshole anyways!

cellogirl418 January 11 2007, 05:29:58 UTC

See, but you won't actually settle. I won't let you. If worse comes to worse, we'll get neighboring apartments and have those dinner parties where you start at one person's house and move on to the next one. It'll be a great way to meet the neighbors! :)

And who knows, perhaps there will be a cute divorced or widowed guy who finds you intriguing. ;)