Sunday, September 9, 2007

The marrying age ? ( Journal # 6 )

I remembered that when I was in high school, my mother always worried that I will get a boyfriend and because of the boyfriend, my school work could be affected. So, she prohibited me to get boyfriend during the high school time. As time goes on, as I came off the student stage and entered my professional field, my mother instead worried that I have no time to meet a good guy because I am too busy to know other people. I always think how contradictory my mom is.


In the last generation, the women’s stereotype is that women don’t need to accept high education because their destiny is to get married with a nice guy and to manage their family carefully; that is enough. I think that is why the women who are in the last generation are all got married in their brilliant age because they aren’t independent enough. However, in the nowadays, gradually, not only do women’s self-conscious arise but also they find their self- value. Therefore, people’s opinion about women has also changed its tune. The more and more women get married after 35 years old and some of them don’t even want marriage because they don't need to rely on men to feed them and those women can support themselves entirely. Some friends of mine, their age is over 30 years old, but they don't get married yet. Some of them want to get married but they can’t find the Mr. Right and others don’t want marriage because they are afraid that the marriage will change their recent life and they don’t want their life to be changed.
However, the common ground between those women is that they are not hurry to get married because they have a steady work and an excellent salary. Even they don’t have marriage, they can still have a colorful life.


As to me, I don’t really think that the age is a big issue to marriage. I think if women can support themselves, they won’t really care what age they should get married. Thus, I believe that the most appropriate age of marriage is 0. I mean that’s your life and you are the only master in your life. So, just follow your heart and don’t care about the god damn age.

2 comments:

leinster said...

Ha, ha. Excellent, well explained. I can relate to your experience with your mom.

Bonnie said...

Wow ~
You got a lot of interesting pictures which make your blog colorful.
I agree what you said that age is not big issue to marriage. The age suitable to marry depends on every individual. I believe that's a kind of responsible attitude to others and myself.
You have a attractive blog.
Bonnie