Musings from the world of pseudo-dates, man-children, booze and the third year of graduate school
Monday, May 17, 2010
Sigh
I figure I should be happy - I have avoided my school reunion, but I'm not. I feel like I need to be there to represent for all the educated single peeps out there - funny thing is I think I'm like one of maybe 5 of those in my class and the others are doctors. You can get away with being single and a doctor because you've spent hundreds of thousand on your education, you have a title and you do very little sleeping amongst other amazing skills. Now me - debt (check), title (no check), very little sleeping - opposite check - I do lots and lots of sleeping - everywhere I can - but that is not the point. The point is I do not have multiple spawn, I do not have arm candy and I do not have a whole lot else either. Does this mean I'm somehow less of person - NO, BUT to my classmates it means something is wrong with me - like for these ultra conservative folk - I go for the other team, I have leprosy, or something along those lines... you think I jest, oh I don't... so while I should be happy to avoid the where is your ____ (husband, house, title, child) - it just makes me sad that we are so stuck on those things when there are so many more things that define our lives.
"...there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you know this already, and I don't think you'd let others' opinions define who you really are. I thought the same of myself when I saw others were moving on to the next step of their lives. I know I would've gone clinically crazy/depressed if I kept thinking/comparing myself to them. We move with life and we can choose to bemoan or celebrate it for what it's worth, because it is our own.
Sleep well my darling. I hope you'll see things better tomorrow.
I am still sticking to the not going for other reasons too but I completely agree with not letting others define you - but there are times where I just find that I guess I tire from that road. Oh well. I slept I think.
ReplyDeleteI'm not going either. I will be at Geowoodstock at that time, but that isn't really the reason I am not going. It's mainly because I really and truly don't give a flying you know what about what 95% of the people in our Grad class are doing. The other 5% I already know about and don't feel the need to drop $60+ bucks to go chat with a bunch of people that I didn't particularly like to begin with. Facebook and the like has made reunions pointless anyways, you get daily updates about what people are doing.
ReplyDeleteWell said - at least I can cross you off as one reason to attend.
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