There is at least one totally lickable woman on this show. Maybe more.

Pretty much only ugly people died in the plane crash. Heh.

We're also in very different positions, I must admit, as marriage and kids are not really on my list of desirables, and home ownership is but a distant flicker of a maybe dream.

I just want to have a savings account with actual money in it, and all my bills paid on time. That's my goal. I want to to comfortably afford this little rented life of mine.

I shudder to think how much I'd be freaking out if I was super interested in marrying and having a kid. My friend was determined to at least have a baby before 30, so she just had one. Told the guy he could be with her or not, but she was getting pregnant. And he was cool with it. Turned out even even loved her and wanted to marry her.

Um, does my husband count? ;)

Home ownership. Baby birthing. Spouse attaining. Career achieving.

None of it's necessary. There is nothing in life that you have to DO. Nothing that you need to HAVE.


Concentrate instead on who you want to BE. Decide in every moment who you want to be next, and then BE that person. Don't worry about what to do or what to have. All the perfect things to do and to have will flow quite naturally from who you are going to BE.

Chin up old people! If we were living 200 years ago, at 28 you would have a bunch of kids (a few of them considered grown) and possibly grandkids if you married off your daughters at thirteen or fourteen. Then you'd be hunched over your needlepoint at the end of a day in which you had worked like a slave grinding your own flour, or some such nonsense, pondering what you are going to do in a few years when your nest is empty. Those of you in your forties would be really old and probably dead within ten years or so. Infantile youth is a relatively new luxury.

I'm feeling really old lately. Am I really having my second child? Am I really 24? (Having kids makes that number seem a lot higher, by the way.) I see myself getting older and it feels so surreal. Like I'm watching someone else's life. That being said, I'm so grateful not to be 17 or 21 anymore. I hope I'm getting smarter.