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Yeah, I don't really mind wearing them, it's just the dependency on them (and on anything else tbh :p) that bugs me.
I've got dependencies on other things besides glasses now, so I guess I kind of blow that off. :D

So true. Regression to the mean is the best thing that has happened to me with age :p I was a very extreme person in the things I loved and the things I hated, especially because i was in the process of quitting my religion and I was angry at so many things. I used to write a blog when I was 20, and every time I want to suffer I go back and read my posts :lol: I was so ridiculously passionate about everything. What I like about my blog is that while we tend to forget how we used to be and what mattered to us the most in the past, that blog is a testament to all that :D
Funny you should say that. One thing I remember from being out of college and working my first job was how pissed off I was all the time at stuff: pinheads on the street in their luxury cars, fake people, the stupid games people play, etc. It got to the point that after a few years of it, I just wanted it to stop. Ultimately I learned it was just hurting me and nothing else.

You're dead right about going back to what you wrote at 20, though.

Have you ever read this Wait But Why?:
http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/12/the-teen-years-9-cringe-inducing-realizations.html

It kind of touches on that theme of looking back and cringing at yourself.

So that's the great thing you gain from getting old? You're not as emotional?
Perspective is good too. You can still be emotional. You can just be better prepared about what to expect and be less of a drama queen for how life plays out. That gives you a little cool and calm in the moment that you didn't have before.

I think the reason is divorce doesn't have as many consequences as it used to have before, especially for women, and especially in bigger cities where women work and are financially dependent (i'm talking about Iran). Also divorce has been relatively destigmatized, again especially for women. I think both are good changes in a country like Iran, regardless of its effect on divorce percentage. Another thing, people of my parents' generation or generations before had more of an instinctive mindset about the concept of marriage, that you should get married to be safe and allowed to have kids, etc, now people can achieve those without having to accept the responsibilities that come with marriage. Another contributing factor, in my opinion, is that concepts such as sacrifice, selflessness, contentment and patience as well as understanding the responsibilities that come with say having kids are no longer as integral parts of people's mindset when getting married as it was before, and it's both a man and a woman thing :p
The other major issue to what Dusan refers to is even before people get married. With job prospects, student debt, housing prices, etc., as they are, it just doesn't make financial sense to get married as earlier as people used to.

Yea, nowadays it seems that's exactly the reason why women sometimes laugh at the idea of a marriage. It used to be a some sort of security which they can get themselves (sometimes). But it's what's actually sad as even new psychology confirms how important is to have both parents while growing up. Chances are quite high that kid is gonna end up lost while being going through the phase of adolescence. But in 95% of the cases it's women who push to be single mothers thinking they don't need a buy beside them to provide anything. I don't think it's ever vice versa.
I'm not so sure I buy into this though. My wife grew up pretty much as a single child when her father died of cancer when she was 3 years old, and she's one of the most emotionally developed people I've ever met.

And there are so many people out there who are the children of divorces and such, and yet there's still a lot of good, well-meaning young people. I'm not sure I'd condemn the single parent family to childhood dysfunction necessarily.
 

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