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A girl I was friends with in high school, a few years younger than me, just posted pictures of her wedding on her myspace page... Okay. She's still a teenager. She's gained a serious amount of weight. AND she's pregnant. She just frigging graduate from HIGH SCHOOL! What is she thinking? What is with this seemingly unbreakable cycle of girls getting pregnant so young, getting married, and then their kids doing the same thing? And then their families seem just overjoyed that trailer trash genes are continuing to be passed along! For goodness sakes! I took moving in with my boyfriend to be a pretty huge step, and yet everyone I went to school with is doing THIS? And the sad thing is, most of these people get divorced, get depressed, and start using drugs/alcohol (haha, if they didn't before--ugh!)... Don't they realize they're going to continue to go NOWHERE in life? Yeah, starting out at some crappy community college is GREAT if you're going to go forward with it. But WHY waste the money if you're going to just get knocked up, married, and then quit? Let's face it--you'll be working in fast food until you die. Or at least until you're too fat and lazy to work, and then the rest of us who have DONE SOMETHING with our lives have to pay your way. Such bullshit.

So a friend of mine just found out she's pregnant. She's thrilled and nervous and I don't even know what to say to her in my mix of surprise and general confusion.

She and her boyfriend have been together for years now, but fight constantly over the same things; they can get into some pretty nasty fights... And now a baby? Wow.



On the other hand, I couldn't be happier for her. She and her boyfriend both want to get married and have a family; maybe this will be the kick in the ass they need to get everything going in that direction.



I'm still shocked.



And the other day, MY boyfriend tells me he thinks you should get engaged after 2 years together. Now don't get me wrong--I LOVE this guy. He's amazing and I can totally imagine marrying him one day. But two years is only 15 months away for us... It just seems so soon. Then again, why worry? It's over a year away and I don't think I'm in any real danger of him asking me any time soon anyhow. After all, what would his mother say? I don't think she'd be all for it, at least not in the next couple years.



*sigh*



Everywhere I turn, marriage and/or children seem(s) to be surrounding me. I'm only 22 years old! Where is all this coming from?!