Welcome to my first Topic Tuesday, and this week I came across an article that I just had to talk about. Sorry ahead of time to start off the first Topic Tuesday on a more controversial note haha.
If anyone is interested in reading the article I'm about to talk about, you can find it HERE.
Let me first put a disclaimer that this is entirely my opinion, if your happy, in love and your able to support a family, than by all means get married! I'm definitely not try to tell anyone how to live their lives:)
So to sum up the article, is it addressing the idea of marriage and how as a society we are marrying later and later. The blogger addresses that this is a "process of self destruction" and soon enough we will hit the point where not only do we decide to marry later in our years but we'll soon "give up water and oxygen" as a result of how traditions are changing. The blogger remarks "Who knows? We can’t tell them how to live, man".
So I'll start this post off with a simple question:
Do you think marrying young is a good idea?
You may say, "Hm, well among many different factors...it could depend on how young"
For general purposes, lets say the age starts at 18. For most people, this is around the age you graduate High School. First off, I truly believe in exploring the world, getting to know as many different cultures and people as possible, and with this you begin to not only open your eyes to the world but you get to know yourself better as well.
Traveling (especially if your brave enough to travel alone) takes trusting yourself to incredible lengths, and you gain a lot of confidence knowing that you were able to do something that is so out of your comfort zone.
The article notes that, "every day I see a link on Facebook to ridiculous clickbait websites like Elite Daily or Thought Catalog, explaining the ’30 Things You Should Try in Your Twenties,’ or some such nonsense, and the list always includes traveling, partying, and hanging out at bars. " but it's so much more than "hanging out at bars", it's about facing your fears, making a life for yourself that makes you a strong individual and that pushes your limits. If you wanna call that being self absorbed and wasting your money than by all means, go ahead.
But being confident on your own for a while means that you can also be confident in your relationships, and you go into marriage with a much different outlook on life. Your absolutely fine spending time watching Netflix alone and you also enjoy going out on the town with your significant other. I think that when two people both have a very stable single life, they come together to make a very confident and trustworthy marriage. Sometimes that takes living on your own, developing your likes and dislikes further, and just experiencing life before taking on your next chapter.
So what do you guys think? Do you think our culture should start marrying younger or continue to marry later in life? Tell me what you think below!
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