As I'm getting older, I'm starting to see so many people, guys and girls, just jump into relationships because they're "too old" to be single. Or because all of their friends are in relationships and are starting to have families.

I'm almost 22 years old and that means my friend group is about to graduate college or already have. We're expected to start our lives right away and get a real adult job with our degree, move out, get married and start a family. This is crazy, we're barely past our teenage years.

I've noticed people feeling the pressure of society telling them that they need to settle down and that they're too old to be single. Well, that's bullsh*t.

I've noticed so many people just jump at the first person that comes their way and settle for a relationship where there's no real love. These people just convince themselves that they are in love and that this is the person that they should be with for the rest of their lives. When a few months ago they were still hung up on their ex or hooking up with random people.

I've seen people move in with each other just a couple months after dating and getting engaged and married right away. I've seen girls and guys purposely try to have a baby because then they will always have that person to run back to whenever a new relationship doesn't work out. This is ridiculous.

Don't get wrong, some of these people actually know that the person that they are with are the one and that this is what is meant to be, but a lot of them are doing it just because it was what everyone else is doing and what society tells us to do.

(If you are getting married for you, and having babies for you, I 100% support you and this isn't about you, it's about the people who do it because they feel they have to and because they want to fit in.)

But for me, I would rather be single than in a fake relationship that's just for the both of us to be considered "normal". I would rather focus on me right now than focus on finding a guy to settle down with. I wouldn't want to be in a relationship where either one of us is forcing "love" or knows that this isn't the person that they're supposed to be with.

If you're single and all of your friends aren't, THAT IS OKAY. Be single. Do you and what makes you happy. Not what makes society happy. I get looks all the time because I'm almost in my mid-twenties and I'm not getting ready to have a wedding and have babies. All the time people tell me that they were married when they were my age and pregnant and blah blah blah. Like that's great if that worked for you, but this isn't a one size fits all topic.

I would much rather wait as long as it takes for the right one to come around than to jump into anything to please other people. And if I never meet the one, at least I wasn't wasting my time with people that didn't need to be in my live and I was doing what I wanted to be doing and what was making me happy.