Dream a Little Bigger, Darling

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of fat, happy women. –Nicole Hollander


Last Thursday (15th March 2007) was the last classes I’ve attend as an undergrad. After 6 years of struggle, whining, moaning and cussing finally the end is here. At the beginning everything seems to be far away. Time move slowly, too slow for my liking but I guess the saying was right; time flies when you are having fun. Life as a student has it up and down. But learning something new everyday and discovering some hidden talents in me were one of the best experiences as a student. The world seems so wide, full of mystery and appealing in every sense. The mind looks as if it was expended its size in order to grasp all these new knowledge. The eyes appear to be wide open, attentive and perceptive observing everything. I’m grateful for being a student.

However, once everything is over the most dreaded moment will come. What happen after I graduate? I want to remain as student forever and let me worry about everything and anything but never put me inside the horrendous society and make me become a mechanical being that only has concern on monthly salary. To enter the real world and working sound scary enough for me (I never work and earn money in my whole life)
Looking for job and maintaining it sounds scary but maybe not as scary as the topic of marriage is concerned. My mom has shows her tendency to ruffle my unkempt feathers for this issue from the time when my older sister get married last year. She dropped the hint here and there but I just keep quite (who knows what kind of obscene words will come out from my mouth if I ever open them at the first place).

Really, it bothers me and to some extent it makes me nuts whenever people just assume once you graduated the best thing you ever did for your life is getting married. Marriage is not my top priority. How on earth I‘m going to share this little concept of mine with everyone out there? My mom will be too eager to marry me off and make grand wedding ceremony if there is a candidate which pleases her. Oh God..maybe I should start considering living abroad from now on so that everybody (read my mom and those evil housewives who have too many free time) will leave me alone. I have to work hard and save some money for this.