I have reached that point in your very early twenties, still a few years before you hit your mid-twenties, where people you've known since childhood start to get married and settle down and somehow, I seem to have missed the memo that we are all serious adults now. Not that I'm not serious, I certainly am on the serious rather than frivolous side, however, marriage to me, is no joke and it is such a "grown up" thing to do. Grown I am, a "grown up" however? Not quite. I haven't yet reached that stage and although it may seem rather strange, it appears that most people my age are in the same boat as me. There are the "tweens," which are the kids that are not quite teens yet, then there are the teens, and then there are what I like to call the "twenteens" which are those of us who are no longer teens, but aren't quite into our twenties yet and still, quite frankly, do not have our acts as together as we would like. At first I thought this was a unique thing and that I was probably the only loser to feel this way, arrested in my development so to speak. However, as I seem to be discovering more and more, I am not alone and am in fact, part of quite a phenomenon of young people who are feeling left out of the proverbial loop. If this makes us a tad bit slower than our counterparts all over, then so be it. Marriage is cool and all, but like I said, it's no joke and I'd rather get married a little later and be sure than to be married young and divorced early. Not to say that all young married couples end in divorce...Alas, I digress. In the end, what it boils down to really is, to each his own...