Being 21, a college student, and a free-spirited individual, I don't quite understand why people around my age are DESPERATE and even rushing to find the one, get married, and perhaps have children?
Are you even going to have time to enjoy your own company? To outgrow your old ways, to see the world, to make memories with your friends and/or family? You have an entire life ahead of you to experience by yourself.
I can understand if you want to have the life you never had or even desire the love of someone to keep you full of life forever, but this is real life.
Life isn't social media, couples are not happy 24/7. To have a long-lasting relationship, work must be put, feelings are hurt, compromises must be made. You are young, you are still exploring yourself.
I can speak for my younger audience because I am by no means ready to find the right person and immediately get married, have children, and so on and so forth.
I have to make a certain salary, I have to see certain places, and I have to figure myself out completely before I even dedicate myself to a person and a family.
If I want to have a family I have never had, I need to dedicate to my goals completely. It's okay to be picky and to be wise about it.
Families and relationships are like fortresses. They must be sturdy or else they will fall apart. How can a broken pillar manage to keep all the others intact? If one is flimsy, the other one with time will eventually fall.
The idea of achieving this goal sounds fantastic, but make sure you have experiences to tell. Travel solo and your pictures will speak for themselves.
I'd rather have certain experiences alone than to travel with someone who could be a potential partner at the moment.
Do you know that feeling when you miss a certain experience but not the person? Yep, I know it very well. I'd rather enjoy my own company.
I'm not saying that it's not possible to enjoy what life has to offer with someone else, I'm saying that you should look out for yourself and enjoy your own company before you devote your precious time with somebody else.
Our time alone should be cherished, enjoy it fully before you take care of anyone.