Saturday, December 19, 2020

Tumblr Rant Calls Out Marriage Standards


Society has a frustrating knack for creating all kinds of unrealistic standards that it expects its members to live by. In this case, we have a Tumblr user calling out society's outdated and illogical standards about how people should handle their love lives. Some folks are actually just completely at peace with not sharing their life with someone else. It's on the rest of their fellow human beings to recognize that happiness and not question it as if something's out of place. 

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Text - claryfairhild Follow i'm so done with the way girls in twenties are treated. i'm so done with people who literally create timetable for us. 20- 24 find a guy, 24-26 make him propose to you, 27-29 get married. i'm so done. i'm do not want to get 2 a.m texts from my best friend who is freaking out that she is gonna die alone. i do not want see my 20 years old friend wasting her time on some guys who are not even interested in her. i do not want see us falling for every nice guy who does not

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Text - kaerya Follow Not a real criticism, just an expansion really, but .. it's not just the timetables we need to get away from, but the goal itself, I think. "One day you will find someone," sounds comforting, but the reason it doesn't lay fears to rest is because we are all smart enough to know it's not necessarily true. My aunt is over sixty, never married, and never, so far as I am aware, ever even had a great romance. She dated a lot, but never clicked and now seems to have given up. My m

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Text - But .. My aunt trains dogs. Her schipperke is the national champion for his breed. She spent so much of her life as a librarian, nurturing the love of books in kids, myself among them. Tride horses because of her, and it's one of the very few things I do that makes my soul feel at peace. My mentor is one of the best criminal defense attorneys in her state. She has devoted her life to fighting to ensure that everyone gets a vigorous defense. Because of her countless people have had the opp

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Text - So love your family, your friends, your pets, your gardens. Love your job or your hobby or your raison d' etre, whatever it is. Love sunsets and the smell of rain and yourself, and don't love these as something to do as a placeholder until the buzzing, romantic love comes, but love these as things worth loving all in themselves. It's fucking hard some days. The dark 3 am's still come sometimes. But most days, I am so much more at peace knowing that I am not incomplete or waiting, but that

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