There seem to be some certain targets we are all supposed to hit in our lives: to get married, to get children and acquire some decent property. And I can’t help but wonder, is there some certain age limit, when you’re supposed to start getting worried that you haven’t acquired any of these yet? I mean being a 26 year old single girl living in a rental apartment with a cat, should I already start getting worried or is it still totally ok?
And the most important thing is – does anyone of us actually want these achievements in the CV’s of our lives? Or is it just a peer pressure we’re all facing? And putting upon each other as well. It can be a natural instinct to start wanting kids and family at some certain age, yet it’s also very feasable that it’s purily a social pressure. Just think how we see single 30 – 35 y.o. people, married couples without children, women striving for carrier… I cannot help but wonder why desire for a family is considered essential target in our society. I wished these kind of stereotypes would be no longer valid and we would be set free to create our own targets and goals.
Seems like there’s a certain path meant for us to be taken: kidergarten->school->university->carrier->family…-> until death do us part, right? I wish there was more tolerance for a woman who choses kidergarten->school->university->carrier path, I wish she wouldn’t get called spinster, cold, power greedy bitch or a woman who choses to go this way kidergarten->school->family woudln’t be considered a dumb unambitious housewive… Not to mention men, who would like to go that way!
I think I’ve pretty much sorted out which way I want to go and I hope I will be let go all the way down that road at my own pace…
Just go, girl, just go, as long as the way is yours!!!
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Chech this out
“читаем, пишием, рисуем, поём, гуляем, болтаем, кушать готовим, в гости ходим, гостей принимаем) живём, в-общем)”
Amazing! The fact that people can just – live! I always felt uncomfortable not being able to definy myself with some certain studies or profession… I’m jealous of their ability to just let go and be…