Yesterday, a friend from Primary School had her first child. She's the same age as me, 21. Many of my friends from Secondary School have also had at least one child by now.
One of my best friends from Secondary school and I go out for lunch whenever I'm back in Essex. It's like a tradition now. We catch up (it's usually every 6-odd weeks we see each other), talking about our boyfriends and what not, and sometimes talk goes to our friends who are now mothers. I don't really see them any more, but she sees them often. She tells me how its always baby this and baby that and 'I can't come out today, I don't have a babysitter' and that she's a bit fed up with them because they don't seem to have their own lives any more. Fair enough, having children does that, but we're still meant to be enjoying our lives as our own, still growing up. We, my friend and I, aren't looking down on them or anything for having children - it was their choice. We then go on to talk about our futures. She's got enough money now to go towards a house with her boyfriend of 2 years, and my boyfriend of 4 years and I are talking about jobs and houses for after graduation. It's all rather exciting. We're both in similar points in our lives, and it's nice to talk to someone about it who isn't a guy (99.9% of my friends are male). It may seem archaic nowadays, but we believe in finding a man you want to stay with, moving in with them, getting married and then having children.
Anyway, I got my usual monthly medication from the Pharmacy on Tuesday. For the first time ever, I was asked if it was okay for one of my bottles to not have a child safety cap. Am I of an age now where people may assume I have children?
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