Marriage and Egypt

Lately, in the past few weeks, I have met up with many of my girlfriends and even guy friends and surprise surprise had the exact same conversation with every single one of them...marriage. We are all at that age now where most of our friends are getting engaged, married, or even having babies so we feel the pressure big time these days which is why we had this conversation so many times. 2 of the girls I talked to share the exact same view as I do but we are a rare species in the Egyptian culture; we see no reason to get married now just because people expect us to, PLUS we believe that if we find the right person we'll get married, if we dont, then we'll stay single no problem. WHAT!? That's the reaction we get from some friends, and even some family members about that opinion. And we are just baffled by it! Some girls are getting engaged for the sake of being engaged! I do not understand that! How can you prefer to marry someone you dont even love over being on your own? How can you say to yourself, "oh well here's a guy that wants me...let me marry him coz I need to get married already". My reaction to that would be....ARE YOU FREAKING CRAZY??!! I would prefer being alone, travelling around, working, doing anything rather than marrying just any random guy! What's sad is that this seemingly logical concept is so totally rejected by our society. Here, if you finished uni and are working then you are expected to be married next...its a holy system that cannot be messed with so now I get comments like "oh so you've been working now for 8 months, when are you getting married?". And its just hilarious to me! I am fine on my own for now thanks! If I find a guy and fall in love that's great! I mean ALL girls want that. But I won't be like "oh I'm turning 23 soon and have secured a job, let me go shopping for a husband now before its too late". WHAT THE HELL!! My friend said it perfectly "I'm not about to go kiss as many frogs as I can in the shortest amount of time just so I can find the prince that society expects me to marry like NOW". Unlike most people in Egypt, we want to find a guy who will complement us, who will be our partner. We are not looking for someone to "complete us". We are already complete on our own, we just want another complete person who just adores us and we adore them and we are able to have a good time together. If I find him it'll be awesome, but if I dont, that doesn't make me an incomplete person!