So my 25th birthday was last week. It was a joyous occasion. Many people helped me celebrate, many cakes were made and all around it was very memorable. 25 is that age that starts making you think. Some of my life goals include marriage and children. I would like to have children sooner than later, and I'd also like to be alive to celebrate lots of wedding anniversaries, so with each passing birthday, i have a momentary though to my biological clock. I'm OK with the fact that marriage is not on my current horizon, I'm OK with the fact that my life has worked out the way it has and I'm currently single. What I'm not OK with, is other people not being OK with this fact. I have a lot of friends, the majority age 24-30ish, and the majority also single. So I wonder why it is that people in their 50-60's are so concerned with the relationship status of my generation. On this note, I will share my most amusing and also insulting birthday present received via email. A woman I work with, late 50's, emailed me: Subject line: Happy Birthday and here is your present. Body of email: A link and screen shot of the Christian Singles Dating Website. I could just leave it at that, but I'm not going to.
Clearly, this woman doesn't know me, not that I'm anti-religion or anything, but for all she knows, I could be Jewish, or perhaps Hindu, or a Jehovah's Wittiness. Second of all, for all this woman knows, I'm not single. I rarely ever talk to her, let alone about my relationship status. Does one need to run around the office sharing stories of her relationship to perfect strangers so they don't send her dating web site links? Now I can appreciate this woman's though that I would apparently be much happier and better off if I met the man of my dreams via said website, but I couldn't help to think that her motives were less happiness of others and more judgy mcjudgerson about my single status.
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