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I work in aged care...
so work hasn't anything to do with it.
I go down the street to shop and see them everywhere I go.
Of all the ones I know expecting, they are not older than about 25. Most of them are my age or younger.
Maybe its just this town and their idea of how life goes. I'm 22 and I would say at LEAST 50% of my school year have kids or are married already, and same goes for the year below me and the year above me.
I would love to be a young parent. But maybe kids before 25 is not going to be a reality for me. At least I'll have a house and will have travelled the globe and what not.
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22 is still young! am 23 so am an aged old lady by comparison.. and i don't own a house, and i don't (currently) have a job, and i haven't really gone and done an OE.. all i can claim is that have 1 and a half degrees, and a scary tendency to get pregnant to this one guy. have never gotten pregnant to anyone else and there have been ample chances.. all i can say is what a friend said to me (the one with the sister who saw the healer) in that maybe this little soul just really wanted my ex and me for it's parents.. i just guess it could have worked out between us. i really fell totally in love with him see, but as far as i can tell he never really gave a s*** about me. he'd tell me about how he's make breakfast in bed for his gf from some years ago, who'd tell him he'd done her toast wrong or some bs like that. and i thought that was pretty rough, but the thing that has stung is that he never once did anything like that for me. poor deluded baby, thinking this b****** would be a good dad. sorry.. have had a bit of a self pitying day..
but to get back on point! i think honestly that you have heaps of time for bubs to come along and find you. i mean you've got everything else sorted so really, maybe it's just waiting till everythings settled, like you've moved in to your new house and had a bit of time there and then a nice guy will toddle into you life and it's all happy! i honestly wouldn't recommend rushing into it. and i think that there is a sickening trend of people playing happy families at the moment.. but then there was the herald magazine (auckland newspaper weekend glossy - canvas) this week with their front page saying: married at 20 divorced at 23. so you know.. and the amount of people who have kids more by accident at first and then keep going, i do wonder at how those kids will mature when essentially their parents never had a chance to reach their full potential..
i hope that helps as a train of thought.. sweet dreams honey. x
