Do you compare your life to someone else's based on age?

I used to do this, but then I realized everyone does as he/she pleases or as life takes him/her...

 

I compare but I stretch it out to older people, comparing what I want to do with what they've done. I don't compare with people my age because I like where I am and what I do.

 

I have been feeling old lately comparing myself to some of my friends.. who are already set with a job, a boyfriend or even a husband and kids, and they're my age or a year older or a year younger.. so sometimes I feel like I'm really taking it slow.. sometimes I feel like a loser to still not be done with school.. and I feel like getting a career and a husband and family and that sort of things will never come for me. I almost got all that years ago.. like I almost got married at 18, then again I would have been done with school and married like.. now actually, this holiday season of this year, but now.. see where I am.. I really don't know.

I guess my main point is I feel retarded (as in no stupid just.. behind)

 

umm no i don`t think i have ever done this

 

I don't compare my life. I'm 21, in the midst of getting a degree in painting, married with a 4month old <3 I know my friends compare their lives to mine though. I mean I just happened to fall in love and get married earlier than some. Not everyone finds the right man at 21 and not everyone wants kids so young. We did but not because someone else had it. A lot of my friends want to get married to their boyfriends now even though they aren't in the best relationships. My best friend is engaged after 2months of being with someone and wants a baby. It's CRAZY! It's like they saw me do it and feel like thats how it should be done.

 

Yeah, I have a bad tendency to do so, because most the girls I graduated with my age are at least graduating college now or in college at least, and if they're not, they're likely pregnant or already have a few kids. And it also freaks me out because my mom was less than a month shy of 23 when she got married. And the fact that she and my dad wanted to start trying for kids when she was like 24. I don't know if I'll be ready for kids even by then. I feel like the clock is ticking and I'm running to catch up. It's exhaustingly pointless.

 

Ugh my mom got married at 24 and got me at 25, and my sis Marie at 27.. it's depressing.

 

My parents tried, but didn't succeed with the glory that is me until my mom was almost 28. And you know, the more I think of it, that's not a bad age, because I can still hang out with my mom and she can still keep up with me. I just don't want to have kids and then grow too old to enjoy them, you know?

 

yea if I have kids I definitely don't wanna be older than 28 to have the first one.. and if I have a kid I'll want a second one but definitely not more than two. hhhha don't really know.

 

all I know is I couldn't have a kid now or before a couple years from now. I'm still a kid in my head.

 

Nope, it's all a cosmic drama and Im holding a camera until it's over

 

My life is like me floating in the ocean with a rapidly depleting life raft.

I'm too busy trying to keep air in my little raft to really compare myself to other people.

 

I kind of think about it, comparing myself to people I know, but it has nothinng to do with age...and even then, I don't really take it seriously or look at it as what shes done or whatever. I'm me, not them... what if they found a cure for cancer or something, and all I was thinking about is how I have a better job than them or something, you know?

 

My mum had us when she was 28. I had to work that out with her birthday; it was really weird thinking of her life before us.

 

I am proud to have experienced much more stuff than most people my age though. It makes me feel like.. okay.. if I die tomorrow.. it won't be that bad. I've done a lot of stuff most people would do over 50 years or never at all. I've been a lot of places, met a lot of people, fed my head with so much..

 

No, because it's more about choices rather than age. I have noticed that people around my age either decide to work, get married and/or have kids or go to college after high school.

 

I dont compare myself to people my age.But age vs where u are at , is a BIG defining thing IMO.

Its strange comparing where I forecast myself 5 yrs ago , to where I actually am/ what my prioities are..

 

I'm thinking there's not that many alternatives - move abroad, travel, unemployment are the three other I can think of right now.

 

5 years ago I thought I was gonna be getting married right now.

 

I thought that too Penny ( that I'd be married).