Enough already!

  When you enter the work force, you're around adults as your peers for the first time.  Most of your life, your interactions with middle aged, married, adults with children have been with family members, teachers or something like that.  But now that these type of people are your coworkers, you get a little more insight as to what it's like to be in their shoes.  You quickly learn that most people are miserable, and want nothing more than to pass their misery on to you.  They give you life advice based on their shitty, unfulfilling existence and it can be scary. 
  But, the older you get, and the longer you're in the real world, you come to realize that fact.  You're able to let their sad sack existence roll off your back and see that adult life doesn't have to be the way they tell it.  Entering the final years of my 20's there are a couple of pieces of advice I'm really sick of hearing.  Here they are (this is all going to be from the male perspective, duh):


1) "Don't ever get married."
   There are multiple layers as to why this pisses me off:

- I'm sorry you married a bitch, I really am.  But don't project that shit on to me.  Don't try to sour my image of married life because you're so unhappy in your own.  I know lots of people who are married and have a great time, so don't try to make your failed relationship seem like the fate of all marriages. 

- Maybe you're an asshole.  Maybe your marriage sucks because you're a shitty husband.  Buy your wife a fucking bouquet, take the kids for the night and let her go out.  Do something you used to do together before you were miserable.  Do something.  You shitty piece of shit deadbeat. 

- Sometimes I think dudes say this stuff because they think it makes them seem cool.  I used to work with a guy that would end every phone conversation with his wife by hanging up, holding the phone out and yelling "CUNT!".  Then he would look and see if I laughed or not.  Newsflash:  I think it's way cooler if you love your wife and can't wait to see her at the end of the day.

2) "Your life is over when you have kids..."

  Look, I don't have any children, so I don't really know what the fuck I'm talking about.  But...your life isn't over.  Your life as you previously understood life to be is over.  But what did you think was going to happen?  You were just going to dump your kid off with a sitter and continue going to fancy dinners and bars?  What I think a lot of people mean when they say this is; "I had kids before I was ready, and now I don't know what to do".  That's fine.  I hope you figure it out.  But don't put having kids in a negative light because you don't want to grow up and stay in on a Friday night.  This only counts when it's a married couple that had a kid and now does nothing but complain.  An "oops" baby is a horse of a different color.