There’s a group on Facebook I recently joined titled, ‘All my friends are getting married. I’m just getting drunk.’ In my high school graduating class of 2000, and my college graduating class of 2004, Facebook tells me a size-able percentage of these kids are in long term relationships, are married (or will be soon), and have kids (or will be having them). I seriously question whether this is a matter of their being more grown-up than me, or whether I’m complacent in just being perpetually single as the old woman who will literally live in her shoes. (And damn nice ones, might I add).
So while many of my friends out there are getting married, there are a few other adventures I want to have before I start on the "Big One." Even if it means that I’m that token friend at weddings - you know, the drunk one with the Peter Pan Complex.
I want to start my career and make some money so that I can save up for my dream wedding at a castle like I always imagined it. Travel the world. And last but not importantly, to live on my own without any attachments. I think that everybody should be acquainted with not only the real world (the actual real world, not the TV show) and especially themselves. Because if you don't know who YOU really are, then most likely somebody else isn't going to either.