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Thursday, December 11, 2003 Growing Up and Pairing Off. Ah, very true. I don't know very many people currently who are in their early twenties (like me) but I know plenty of people who are in their mid-, late-twenties who either have significant others or who are lamenting about their lack of paired-ness and trying to do something about it. Like the author of the article, I am also Chinese but from here I differ from her in that I don't think of myself as traditional nor have I gone through dysfunctional relationships (more like lack of relationships altogether). Sure, it's depressing that people push the expectation that you have to be paired up every day. I sometimes get depressed too with how current society is set up. But I also know I don't have to put up with this crap. I'm not going to be the silly girl who pines away because everyone says the grass is greener on the other side (via Bud). I don't know what other people's reasons are for getting married, but I know that I will never do it because everyone else is doing it. I do science and I write. I love both of those things and I think I'm doing my part to contribute to a better society, not the status quo. I'm not going to let it change me to what it wants me to be. I have a better idea of who I am than a bunch of busybodies who only follow rules. [posted by S. Y. Affolee on 6:33 AM : ]
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