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For a while, the path was simple.
High school then marriage with kids and a house or high school, then college, and then marriage with kids and a house. Adulthood had a very doom and gloom sort of scenario attached to it, it was supposed to be marriage, kids, and being uptight.
Now I notice that people are taking more time off after college to explore themselves, an almost new phenomenon is happening where people spend their 20s partying it up a bit longer, having more fun, and staying single before settling later down the road. While in the 1970s a 25-30 year old man was expected to be married and have kids, now it is less of the norm for a guy in that age group.
I feel like throughout history this has happened, college wasn't around forever and it wasn't always portrayed as being a journey through fun and hedonism because women weren't always allowed in colleges. Now in American culture it is portrayed as one of the main places to have your fun.
With all that is going in our society such as the decline of marriage and moral decay, I wonder if it is setting course for something new, a more fun and exciting adulthood.
I wonder if we are heading towards a society where adulthood is no longer stereotyped as boring and lame family life but something much more exciting.
It's as if we are almost getting to the point where after high school and college, there is a new period of life that is supposed to carry on the crazy experiences and wild times of those times.
Now should I or anyone on here care?
Because as independent as we may want to be, this simply means more prospects for us as guys. I don't know about you guys but I don't want to be that 30 year old man who has to go for 21 year old women because a woman around my age thinks she is above casual sex and has to get married now. I also don't want to have to hang with people that are much younger than me in order to enjoy any sort of a fun life because everyone else in their 30s decided to get married, have kids, and somehow become more uptight.
Best of all it just means more opportunities to have your fun as a man as you get older and aren't ready to settle down into family life.
High school then marriage with kids and a house or high school, then college, and then marriage with kids and a house. Adulthood had a very doom and gloom sort of scenario attached to it, it was supposed to be marriage, kids, and being uptight.
Now I notice that people are taking more time off after college to explore themselves, an almost new phenomenon is happening where people spend their 20s partying it up a bit longer, having more fun, and staying single before settling later down the road. While in the 1970s a 25-30 year old man was expected to be married and have kids, now it is less of the norm for a guy in that age group.
I feel like throughout history this has happened, college wasn't around forever and it wasn't always portrayed as being a journey through fun and hedonism because women weren't always allowed in colleges. Now in American culture it is portrayed as one of the main places to have your fun.
With all that is going in our society such as the decline of marriage and moral decay, I wonder if it is setting course for something new, a more fun and exciting adulthood.
I wonder if we are heading towards a society where adulthood is no longer stereotyped as boring and lame family life but something much more exciting.
It's as if we are almost getting to the point where after high school and college, there is a new period of life that is supposed to carry on the crazy experiences and wild times of those times.
Now should I or anyone on here care?
Because as independent as we may want to be, this simply means more prospects for us as guys. I don't know about you guys but I don't want to be that 30 year old man who has to go for 21 year old women because a woman around my age thinks she is above casual sex and has to get married now. I also don't want to have to hang with people that are much younger than me in order to enjoy any sort of a fun life because everyone else in their 30s decided to get married, have kids, and somehow become more uptight.
Best of all it just means more opportunities to have your fun as a man as you get older and aren't ready to settle down into family life.