I have recently noticed a trend in my high school peers, they are all getting married. It seems that every time I get on face book, I find another old school mate who has tied the knot. A lot of them either never seemed to date in High School or they dated a lot in High School. I wonder if I will ever get use to seeing my friends getting married. It just seems so strange to see my peers, people I've know most of my life and are my age, doing something very grown up. As if I didn't feel like the only single girl left as it is! Not to mention it just seems so far fetched that someone my age could find bliss with another person seeing as I am so far from marriage. There is not a single person in my life that I would consider marrying. And what about the whole "marrying young" issue? So many marriages end in divorce, and I wouldn't wish that on anyone. But with the odds against marriages as it is, I wonder how many of my friends will have divorced and re-married by the time I finally get married. When my mother got married (at age 25), many of her old high school friends were surprised to find that it was only her first. That fact use to shock me as a child, but now I wonder if I will go through the same thing. All that said, I feel that I should probably clarify something. Before all you fellow readers freak out and worry, I'm not worried about getting married. I know (at least I hope) that I will get married someday. It's when I'm 30 that I'll start to get worried. Till then, I'm happy with where I am. I can't help but wonder if I would feel any different if I was in a good relationship? Would I be ok with idea of getting married so young, cause lets face it 21 1/2 is pretty young to be getting married. I mean I've always felt that it is an age that it's a possibility. My conditions for when I'm ready to get married are:
1. Be at least 21, I feel that you should be able to drink at your own wedding.
2. Be finished with college.
3. Have a job of my own.
4. Have been together for at least two years.
5. And before we officially tie the knot, have lived together long enough to know that we wouldn't kill each other.
This is not a guide line for others or set in stone, but it's just what I would need to feel that I was making a good choice. I wonder how many of my now married companions put this much thought into it or if they had this many provisions to know that it was right? Many would say that you would just know, but how many of them ended up knowing that they needed a divorce? I guess only time will tell to many of these questions.
