The Life of a Twenty-Something...growing up.
This blog will take you through my post-collegiate life, as I embark upon a new career, and face different and often difficult challenges of becoming a young, independent, Pakistani woman in the United States.
It will chronicle my (hopefully short time) moving back home, how I am going to adjust to it after living away for four years....
this should be interesting.
I’m a 22-year old child?!?!
I do not understand how in the South Asian community, a girl is only viewed as a woman and a true adult when she gets married.
She is not allowed her freedom, she is not allowed to be curious, to be driven, to be honored, to be respected, to be herself unless she is married. How unfair is that?
I am about to graduate college, I have lived in an apartment for the past four years, I haven’t had to abide by their rules, yet now that I am about to leave college and start my career and essentially my life, I have to continue abiding by their rules? Are they serious?!
I am apparently not an adult now that I am 22 years old, I am apparently not an adult now that I am about to graduate college, I am apparently not an adult now that I am about to embark in a hopefully lucrative career. I have done nothing to achieve the goal of being an adult woman; I am not an adult woman, apparently. Apparently I am still a CHILD who needs to ask her mother permission to go to the movies, to do anything. My parents LOOK THROUGH MY MAIL that is sent to their house. What kind of freedom is that? I don’t have any freedom to be.
My freedom, supposedly will only come once I am married, which I do not at all agree with. My parents do not understand the meaning of being an adult in the MODERN UNITED STATES which, if I may remind them, they brought us to, while well aware of the independent culture very prominent here.
I just do not understand how they expect me to remain a child who will abide by their rules. I love my parents; I don’t think their rules are valid. I should not be obligated to follow every dumb rule. I should not be obligated to listen to ridiculous lectures. I am not a child, its too late for those lectures.
