Growing up too fast

I'm slightly taken aback at how many of my friends are already queueing to get a flat with their significant other. At least 4 couples! They're either my age or maybe 1, 2 years older. Already in the kind of relationship that gives them the faith to do the aforementioned, together. Wow. Oh, and I think even my cousin is getting married soon? (I saw that she mentioned ROM in her blog.) She has gotten her flat at Tampines area! Congrats RZ jiejie! :) Really, we were just kids playing together just awhile back. And this 'awhile back' has actually been a decade. Puzzling how years could just whizz by like that.

What is the appropriate age to get married? Is there even an appropriateness to that? 25? (I always thought 25 is a good age to start a family. My mom had me when she was 24. And its always flattering to have friends gushing on how young and pretty she is. True story, ha!)

Now I'm turning 21 in almost exactly a month's time, I feel like time has been pushing me, forcing me to grow up so quickly. I wish I could tell the one who controls time to take a chill pill. What's the hurry? In a year's time, education would have officially ended for me. What will I do then? I've never thought that far yet. You gotta give me some more time.

Someday, few years down the road, after I get married, I know I will be missing my life now. Missing the times I get to stay in the same house as my sister, my brother, my mother. Regretting why I haven't stayed at home more just so I could cherish these moments, just a little more. This itself makes me very reluctant to grow up, knowing I will lose all these in a flash. Life would never be the same, and we all know that. I don't understand how adults, after having their own families, grew so apart from their siblings that they will fight over anything at all. I'd definitely miss the childish fights I have with my sister, the good lecturings from my bro.

Ehhhh I'm not emotional. Just stating the hard facts of life.

Well anyway, I just wanted to pen this down. The next time when I want to even talk about this, I might have already been married, and all the above already happening. So dear friends, I suggest making the best out of your life, treasuring your loved ones whether they treasure you back or not. Just so you know that you have carved the best picture, one with no regrets. That you've done your part.

Just because.

And there's no why to that actually. Do it, just because.
*shrugs*
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Its time for me to do my MR project. What a hassle. (Look, I complain now, and 1 year later I will regret not appreciating being a student. See where I'm coming from?)

Good Night you all.