Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed and Something Judgey

I feel there's two categories that you find yourself in upon hearing that one of your school friend/acquaintances is planning to marry:

1. "Oh wow, is just so lovely to see two young people connect spiritually in this materialistic and violent world," says the eternal optimist while padding barefoot around her earthen-tiled kitchen floor, preparing gluten-free vegan dishes for her dread-locked busker boyfriend.
2. "Oh wow, that's a train wreck waiting to happen," quips the single, hard-skinned, realistic, money-hungry, promotion chasing, barren workaholic.

JF lands very firmly in the latter. It's not that JF is against marriage completely, we just feel that unlike buying clothes at an 80% off sample sale, the decision of marriage is not one that should be rushed into.

Now excuse me while I put my glasses on and look down my nose at you.

JF's distant cousin Condescending Owl

Foxy fun fact 
Marriages in 2010:     approx. 120,000
Divorces in 2010:       approx.  51,000
Percentage:                              42.5%

If that last number (or the thought of looking at the same person's orgasm face for the rest of your life) isn't enough to put you off marriage, then I don't know what is.

You may think you lust love someone so much that you want to spend the rest of your life with them, but at 21/22, you probably don't. You probably don't even know what you want to be doing as a career, what political party you back or what style of clothing suits your figure best.  I believe humans weren't made to be monogamous, its not natural, but that doesn't mean to say that its not a rewarding and fulfilling endeavour if you choose the right partner and I just don't think we know who that is in the first two decades of our life.

JF in something blue on it's wedding day 2078

Girls get so caught up in the whole parochial childhood fantasy of the big white dress and the softly tousled hair blowing in the breeze that they forget what the whole point of marriage is (read: whole point of the first Sex and The City movie). My disdain for over the top, flamboyant and try-hard-status-making weddings is almost as large as the mountain of food on my plate from the self-service reception buffet. Obviously I'm joking, there'd be no self-service buffet at a 22-year-old's wedding, as the average 20-something barely earns over $50,000 the reception would most likely be held at Mc Donald's or something.

It's sad to see that the traditional, romantic concept of marriage has been grotesquely distorted and cheapened by this "young ignorant marriage phenomena".

If there are couples who make it, I would like to know who they are in 30 years time so they can watch me eat my hat.

P.S: There's probably a lot more to say on this issue but Judgey's eyebrows have been raised enough for one day.