There Ain't No Devil, It's Just God When He's Drunk

There must be something in the air...or water, or American food these days, because it suddenly seems like everyone I know is either married or engaged (btw, happy anniversary Kiki!). See what I mean!?!?

As with most things, it all started with Facebook. I couldn't help but notice that a lot of my friends' statuses were proclaiming "[insert name] is the happiest person EVER", "OMG, two weeks before the wedding!", " [insert name] loves [insert name]!! Thank you for making me the happiest person ever!!!"

So naturally, curious me decided to do a tally. Bad idea. I discovered that 23 of my friends are either married or engaged, and out of them, 4 of them have BABIES! One with twins, and one with 2 already. DUDE! And I'm a month shy of turning 25. And I KNOW PEOPLE WITH MARRIED LIVES AND BABIES! 23 of them and counting!

I guess I'm still mentally in the 'but we were just in High School, like, a year ago!' mindset and totally don't feel as 'grown up' as the rest of my classmates seem to be. I mean, I just finished school a year ago, My Honey is about to go back to school, and at the moment, I am working a very part time job and making nothing while paying off my student loan with imaginary money. Marriage? Kids? Ummm, can I haz job first?

I know I constantly compare myself a lot to everything under the sun, but I have to say, nothing quite makes me feel like I'm light years behind everyone else than seeing the kids I went to High School with getting all hitched and having proper jobs and lives. Did I miss something? Was there a 'growing up' fast track course that everyone and their mom took while I was pissing away my early 20s ( oh god, can't believe I wrote that...I'm almost no longer an early 20something) drinking pints in pubs? I even have a few friend who have put down DOWN PAYMENTS on homes!

But as much as I whinge about how jealous I am that they are all grown up (and yes, in my head the image of grown up I have is the same I had with I was 7 yrs old, playing dress up, writing cheques, wearing my mom's lipstick and pretending to smoke pretzel sticks and drinking juice pinky up), I am FREAKING SCARED to let it happen to me. Because being 'grown up' is also synonymous with 'old' and 'having responsibilities' and I think I'll try to post pone some of those until I'm at least 30.