Marriage vs Life

"I wanna get married when I'm 20 something and have kids before 30, my goal is to be a housewife." it seems to become the thought of the day. My girl friends are obviously going through some pretty intense boy-hunts these days. If you told me you have this thought like 3 years ago, I'd have called you pathetic. Getting older, I guess I kinda get the reason for that even I'm not agree with the whole getting-married-is-my-life-goal thing. After all, life's hard. Still if it's really necessary to put a deadline on getting married? Does marriage really can't co-exist with other dreams?

For me, there are 2 types of girls who would die for marriage. The very first one is being-married-and-be-a-desperate-housewife type. This kinda girl tend to be busy looking for the one who is willing to take care of her for the rest of her life so that she could stay at home and take care of her kids like every single day. They are doing that mainly because they are sick of their boring jobs and wanna find a shelter. Well, of cause the second type would be the happily-married type. She is crazy in love and wanna tell everyone that she has found the one.

Please don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that people shouldn't get married. I just don't agree with some of reasons for people to get married. All I'm trying to say is why we have to do it in a hurry and make it sounds like marriage is everything. I still find it sad for some who wanna give up your own life to be a housewife. Come on! It's 2009! Women can be independent. Getting marriage is about having the world to witness your commitment not I-could-finally-quit-my-job-and-stay-at-home-forever.

It's not that I don't believe in marriage because I do. Everyone believe in marriage at some point and wanna broadcast that "we are so madly in love". I believe in marriage. I believe in happy ending. It just needs time to decide where I wanna spend mine.