Everyone I know is getting engaged.
It started with my oldest brother. He got married last May. I was okay with that. He had been engaged FOREVER, so their marriage was sort of like "oh hey, nothing's changed".
Then it really began. My other brother's best friend got married. That made me say "HOLD THE PHONE". I've known this guy since I was 9. He was 11. He used to stay up all night playing nintendo with my brother. "No way he's old enough to get married," I thought to myself. Which was really my way of saying to the universe, "No way am I old enough to have someone I grew up with get married". But apparently I was, because he is now married and going through med school.
Then it started getting closer to home. My boyfriend's friend and neighbor proposed to his girlfriend. They are currently planning their wedding in the summer. But still...I was okay with that. They are a year older than me, both graduating in May and not close enough to me to freak out about.
This weekend my world has self-combusted. One of my closest college friends has been proposed to. I am not freaking out because I want to get married. But when did I get old enough for someone I know, someone my age, one of my closest friends, to get married?
I am also registering for my last semester of college next week, which just reiterates this feeling of being old.
In the words of a great country singer whose name escapes me at the moment: "I'm way to young to be feeling this damn old". For Pete's sake I just turned 21.
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