Monday 23 April 2018

MARRI“AGE”


Image result for black woman worriedI was caught off guard last week during a neighbourhood meeting, when a neighbour of mine (late forties) asked me how my husband was, I smiled and replied “I am not married” and the look I got in return left me wondering what my sin was.
So here I am asking if there is an age one gets to which states marriage has to happen.
I feel it is something we get into when we find that right person who makes us fly and is also available to catch us if we fall, someone with whom life, goals and objectives can be built.
I asked quickly what the look meant and scornfully she replies “you are not getting any younger” (ps am just 25). She goes on to say how we millennium girls are so busy chasing career and leave family behind, but if a man does not come along should i put my life on hold till he does?, She continued saying “The dream of every female graduate should be marriage, then others can follow”, but what if am not ready for marriage??.

Don’t get me wrong, I dream of getting married but not to anybody but to somebody. It might not seem different but it is. I begin to wonder, how many of my kind got married because age seemed right, or everyone was doing it or aunties like this won’t mind their business. Then i thought of how family or peer pressure could drive someone into making wrong decisions.

When should we actually get married?

Is there really an age one must not get to and still be single?

I got lost in thoughts and then it hit me, i never really felt sad or alone, i was enjoying my life, i just got a nice job in the city, a lovely apartment to myself and yes i had males friends who had potentials of being Mr right but we are taking our time. 
Life was not bad at all, i had better enjoy being single and learn how to love and groom myself, so that when the time comes and i know it will, i will be ready. 
I found my smile again

Image result for single and happyI still remember the look on her face when I told her I was enjoying the time of my life being single, earning and loving myself, family and friends.