Outside of getting drunk a few nights ago, I've recently been on a bit of a health kick. After stumbling upon an article in Women's Health magazine, I realized that one thing I could do to improve my mind, body, and spirit was to start drinking more water. So, I started drinking water. A lot of water. So much that I felt like I was on my eighth month of pregnancy with triplets, which wasn't a big deal until I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror.
As I looked at my water-swollen stomach, I couldn't help but think that if I ever get pregnant, this is what I would look like. And then I lost it. Pregnant?! No way. I just graduated college! Well, like seven years ago, but so what?! I'm only 28! Im too young! Well, by most standards, I'm getting a little old, but who's counting?! Pregnant, baby, diapers, noooooo!!!! I threw on sweat pants and practically fell out my front door trying to jog off my water baby. I came back from my jog with a smaller water baby, but my skin still crawling from the experience. And then it hit me like a ton of bricks.
To an extent, I am a commitment-phobe. I don't like living in one place or having one job position for too long. Along with moving a bunch comes a lack of commitment towards people, namely many old friends that I lose touch with once they're not within driving distance. And even though my boyfriend and I have been together for three and a half years, we're nowhere closer to getting engaged, mostly because I'm not pushing for it like a lot of chicks my age. I sometimes feel like I'm the weird one because I'm fine with renting, not buying, living with my boyfriend, instead of living with my fiancé, being a bartender/aspiring entrepreneur instead of a manager or director, and having a rotating door of people in my life.
Maybe one day, I'll want to settle down and have all the things that everyone else seems to have, especially the cute baby/family pictures that everyone is posting on Facebook lately. But until then, back off Mom and Dad, don't judge Friends Who Have Taken A Different Path and Everyone please, let me do me for awhile longer.
Keepin it real,
GenXYZ
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