Young marriage

today news cut:

“Married at 20. Divorced at 23” Elizabeth Day, guardian.co.uk

It reminds me a wisdom chat with my grandma years ago when I was in early twenties, shortly after she knew I was in love. She said, “Wait for several years for marriage.” She was so right that it will be there forever as it will be several years later. If it is gone, you are lucky to have been waiting. Yes, this relationship ended seven years later.

I was always dream for a stable relationship and consider marriage was the destination yet I was never in hurry. There is a desperate desire in me want a different marriage than my parents’. My parents married in their early twenties, and I believe, to avoid early marriage before realize my true desire. Time proves that I was so right!

Late marriage in Hong Kong is common. The higher the education youngsters received, the later the marriage comes across. It is true that people’s life are in turbulence once they finished education then work, the entire new world is waiting for explore. Marriage is not at top in the priority list.  So it is not surprise the high divorce rate among early twenties couples. And it is ridiculous to married because of parents’ desire. It is your marriage not your parents!!! Let alone parents care themselves.