I Do...

not understand why so many people my age are either getting married or are engaged. I know three people who have recently gotten married (all 20 or younger) and three who are currently engaged. I find it crazy that people are making a lifelong commitment so young. This could be part of the reason why divorce rates are so high. People are getting married too young to fully understand what it entails. Maybe I'm just a person who over thinks situations and am wrong and their marriages will all last. But I'm doubtful. Maybe it's coming from a divorced family so I automatically am skeptical of marriage.

Now don't get me wrong, it's not that I haven't thought about marriage. I'll be lying if I say I haven't spent hours on theknot.com (where I signed up saying my fiance was Jake Gyllenhaal) planning out my dream wedding. What girl hasn't? We're raised believing in this fairytale romance where we meet the man of our dreams and live happily ever after.

Yet, I don't think that starts at 20 years old. We're too young to know what we want out of life. We haven't yet experienced all that life has to offer. I think this is a big age for people to find themselves, what they really love and want out of life. Not settle down.

Maybe I'm all wrong. Maybe waiting until my late twenties to get married is just as stupid as getting married at 20. I guess I should do an update to this in 5 years and see how many people are still married or happy with their lives. But I just felt the need to say this. After seeing my friend's status update on facebook "is getting married in 4 days!" it made me do a big wtf.