To add my gripes to the communal pot of Woe:
My peers are graduated, married, and working on exciting careers around the country and world. After close to 5 years, I've not yet graduated College, busy instead meandering through the workplace, part-time school, and this thing called independence. My older sister has been married for a few years now, and my younger brother just let us know that he's engaged. By contrast, I've not been in a relationship for over a year now. Granted I'm not in a big hurry to change that, but when I inform curious friends that I'm not, they often react with surprise, since they "expect I'd have found someone by now." What does that even mean?
Anyway, by all accounts of age and life experience, I'm an adult. I don't particularly feel like one though. I don't feel like a kid either, but it still feels a bit weird when strangers refer to me as "Man".
What if you started a relationship and your S.O. wanted a baby? I know this worries me. (Don't know why, though, given my patent inability to get a S.O.... *grumble*)
I like kids in small doses, but taking care of a cat and some plants is enough to keep whatever passes for my fatherly instincts quite occupied. I've got pretty solid genes, and I'd rather like to bring a kid into the world some day, but I have no idea when I'll be ready for that. I dated someone who had a kid once, and it was an enlightening experience in just how not ready for children I was.
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P.S. In regards to Facebook, the only function I see it serving is to remind people, no matter who they are or how successful they may be, of all the cool and impressive things they haven't been doing.
EDIT: smigenboger, it was a fake Edit. I religiously correct grammatical mistakes, often after the fact.