By this time next week my sister will be married -

[HEyHEY]

I was once told by a friend in College, "After high-school life begins"

Now that I'm outta college I think it's a kind of purgatory between high-school and life. Maybe I'm wrong because in a way, every day life begins. All I know is it's strange being at this stage in life. Everyone I grew up with is doing something.

Darrell's an electrician
Wade's a Golf course mechanical equipment manager/mechanic
Chris is basically president of the family concrete pumping business
I'm a reporter.
My sister is getting married and now owns her own home and runs the family business.
Eryn is a Lawyer.

It's just wierd. And this wedding next week has really made me realize that. Soon people will be having kids and then after that I guess it's time to sit around and raise them.

But not me. I look at life as a huge list of things I wanna accomplish. And last night I got to thinking about things and I realized...marriage scares the hell outta me. I kinda worry all my friends will wake up and suddenly they'll be 60..and they'll regret never doing anything exciting. Many have never left Vancouver unless going to mexico for two weeks at a resort.

Oh well, I guess it's not my place to judge their lives. But I can see youth really starting to end here...I thought I saw it before, when I went ot college and all that. But it is really truly starting to end now.

hmm it's all kinda funny.

[Nikia]

1. If you're married to the right person you still can do stuff

Just make sure that this person shares your interests and goals. Having children makes some things tougher. There are two different schools of thought on family planning in regards to this. One says have your children after you've had fun for a few years. the other says have your children as soon as possible so you can get them out of the house and still not be old.

[Droopy]

2. Feeling philosophical today are we?

Youth ends at different times for different people. When I was at college last quarter, there were people who were all about partying and there were others who were all about studying. For the studyers, youth was over I think. The partyers may well continue their youth after college, that is if they can make it through.

My youth ended when I was about 20 at the onset of a serious mental illness. No more fun and games. I dropped out of college and spent the next ten years bouncing around from job to job trying to make ends meet and deal with the world through the fog of my illness. Things got better. I got the right diagnosis (finally) at the age of 29 and got my meds sorted out by the time I was 30. Now I'm 31 and I'm back in college. Most of the people are about the same age, but there are adults and children among them.