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		<title>Life Equations: Backwards Math</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why social networking makes us feel like we've failed at life.]]></description>
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<p>You know the feeling you get when you log onto Facebook and you see a new album posted by a friend&#8217;s younger sibling, and it&#8217;s their wedding pictures. Or when there&#8217;s a status update from an ex saying that he&#8217;s taking his girlfriend to Cabo. Or there are someone&#8217;s engagement party pictures or baby shower pictures. How does it make you feel?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m always happy when I see that people are happy and doing well, but secretly, I&#8217;m actually a jealous crazy person. But it&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m not happy with <em>my</em> life right now, because I am, but I guess it really gets to me when people younger than me already have everything together. Every girl has done the &#8220;backwards life math&#8221; that makes guys think that we actually <em><strong>are</strong></em> backwards! I remember I rattled this off to my current boyfriend not long after we met and he looked at me like I had been taking some serious mind altering drugs. He thought I was a crazy person. To think that we&#8217;re still dating!! Ok lets do some girl math. For example take the following scenario: you want to be pregnant or have a baby by the time you&#8217;re 30</p>
<p>Ok, so no one wants to have a baby the second that they are married &#8211; we&#8217;re not the Duggers over here! So, say that we allow 2 years of married life before baby &#8211; which would put us at being married by 28.</p>
<p>But you want to be engaged for a year, so you have time to plan everything and throw a sufficient amount of Bridezilla hissy fits before your big day, so that means you have to be engaged by the time you&#8217;re 27.</p>
<p>But you don&#8217;t bump into some guy on the bus or at the grocery store and have him propose over coffee the following day.. Again, we&#8217;re not the Duggers here! You need to date for 2-3 years before you get engaged. I mean, he needs to know your style in order to know what kind of diamond to buy you.. Hello!</p>
<p>So that puts us at having to know the guy (or at least know of him) when you&#8217;re 24-25 in order for the backwards math list to work. What that tells me is that I&#8217;m behind schedule!!!</p>
<p>Christ, maybe I should become a Dugger..! It would take all of the stress out of everything! They don&#8217;t  lark about; they just pick their mate and stick with it.. Kinda like penguins or swans or something.. I don&#8217;t remember which animal it is that mates for life. Regardless, I&#8217;m secretly jealous of their lives too. Yeah, I said it!</p>
<p>Like they&#8217;re so pure and un-jaded by TV and society. They don&#8217;t seem to worry about waiting in line at H&amp;M to buy the newest pair of Jimmy Choos. Yet they do have the sickest cameras and they all have iPhones&#8230; ?! But they don&#8217;t spend time fretting over Facebook or picking apart a text message or voicemail from a boy. And they&#8217;re pretty much guaranteed life as a housewife &#8211; which would be great. I mean come on, what woman <em><strong>wants</strong></em> to juggle a career with babies and housework etc? I certainly don&#8217;t.. I guess I&#8217;ll have to start buying lotto tickets and buying scratchies.. <img src='http://vickyc.me/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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