Yesterday, i had a long conversation with my like-twins friend by phone. We had so many topics to talked about, about this and those, about korean drama or so, about spirituality and politics and sometimes about relationship and marriage. We are a perfect match when it comes to perspectives. Once, she told me the funny story about me. In my friend’s wedding, she met the junior whose brother same level with us. That brother just got married. The junior asked her brother about why would not he marry me since he used to worked with me back then? (By hearing this question, i just got a LOL automatically 😀 ). And her brother’s answer just made a bombing laugh for us. He said “She has too much work” (She refers to me).
I, barely writing about marriage in my post. But it doesn’t mean i don’t talk about it since my circle mostly a married people. I talked about it a lot and if i have to write it, i hope i can write it in different way. Maybe it’s not about marriage itself, it is about single woman in her late 20’s whom simply struggling on society. A shoulder to cry on? It can be but actually no. I just fine no matter what.
In my late 18 (when i went to college), people around me often talked about marriage instead of relationship. They said, marriage doesn’t related to age. And relationship, is something not really worth to be fought. It is enough to marry if you have well prepared mentality and have a catch of course. Because marriage will guiding you and make you more mature. In other words, i would simply said, the younger you married, the better, so i’d ever wanted to get married at 24.
After graduated, nothing seems so easy. You had to find a job which was so hard to find, you were clinged by some questions about “what i really want to do in my life” or while you’re struggling with your own stuffs, you saw your peers got something what you want. The world you’d ever imagined is fading out. And marriage, is something-you don’t want to think-about now.
If you still confused with what you really want to do, if you still struggling with the society you’ll living on and if you have a bunch of reponsibility towards family, institution or another certain parties, how can you called your self already well prepared? It is true that all those problems will always following you. But Is it just marriage who can make someone mature? Is it just marriage who can make you somebody? Or is it just marriage who can guiding you? That matters may will be answered if only you have a great great husband or great great wife. But is that possible if we are just nobody? The reality changes my mind, young marriage is not everything. It works for those who have early maturity. And most of people-including me- maybe are excluding that. Somehow, people do have their own priority.
Now, when the time finally bring me into -that-so-called- adult, people keep asking me “are you ringed?”, “When will you get hitched?” or “why don’t you get married?”. Those are so common questions for single woman like me in this kind of culture. You have no option but tolerate it well. But sometimes you’ll get irritated as well as people looking at you with the glare said ” You’re not off the market yet?” and “Ah..maybe you’re too picky.” Then, yes, judging others is easy right?
About two or three years ago, for the first time, my newsfeed full of wedding invitations. That time was the first time i got a symtomps of quarter life crisis. I’ve got a stress by scrolling the timeline and looked at my friends showing their PDA* with their mate. I was depressed by comparing my struggling life with such public happiness. And unwittingly, i kept asking my self “when will i”. Thanks God, because of that periode, i’ve learn so much to hold back everything.
Somewhat, i start to realize, this is the real world we’re living on. We keep looking at the others while forgetting the essence of our life, we’re busy comparing then less thanking. After got that life crisis, God saved me through unpredictable scenarios. Series of failure made me sharper than before. I started to act more, work more, read more and sometimes, discuss a lot. Like that brother said about me, yes, i have so many work. I gained a precious thing from that, wisdom.
I just love the way she smiles
Being single, is not like your world feeling so empty, lonely and miserable. Both married and single are having their own issues. My happiness by reading books all day long, movie marathon or going somewhere impulsively maybe is nothing for others. But life is just not about our own happines. To live is to love, to love is to understand, to understand is to share. How much you can learn,how much your productivity, how much you can share which can determine your quality of life. It can be done both you’re single or married. However, i have to thank to God because He give all those chance to improve my quality of life when i’m still single.
Worrisome certainly is companion. It’s just fine. Because of worrisome, we growing hope up, praying to God and keeping our life interesting. I’m worry too, i’m scary too and i’m wondering too. But all you need to do is accept right?. So now, if people trying to ask me “who will you marry?” i just say “who knows” right? Even before i was borned, it has been written, about who is he, about when it happens. So why do i have to waste my time wondering about something that i can do nothing about it? One of my besties said this “You can accept it, overcome it, and improve your self quality. But the most you have to do is, Believe in God.”
Like i have to continue my work 🙂
