I can't believe the number of people around my age from my hometown who are getting married. Where I'm from, you reach a certain age--for girls, it's in their final couple years of college or just after graduation, for guys it's a little after that but only by a few years--the fashionable thing to do is get married. Well, I won't say fashionable...it's just what everyone does. And the kicker is, even if they went to school out of state, a large proportion end up marrying people from our hometown! Egads! I can't imagine that with all the people who are out there that they may have met at college, they have to come back and marry people they went to high school with. This only happens with the "upper classes," though, I guess you'd say...ones who don't belong to this group usually get married in high school or just after or not at all. I never really thought about it much, but the other day it hit me as I was looking through the local paper at my parents' house and saw how many of my classmates were listed in the bridal registries...it was insane. Thank God my parents don't ascribe to the idea that if I hit 25 and am still single, I'm an old maid--my mom has always told me to wait as long as I can, but if I do end up being crazy enough to get hitched I should wait until
at least 27 or 28, preferably over 30. I'm loving that...no pressure for quite a few more years at least!
