Life, Love, Babies and Marriage?

I feel as though I am at the point in my life everything is about babies and marriage. Most of my friends are either engaged, pregnant or hoping for just that. I am still in the mindset I want to get through school and make my own life. I love kids, I plan on working with kids the rest of my life; however I don't want any of my own any time soon.

I feel as though a relationship isn't even considered serious unless you have a ring on your finger or are living together. I don't think that should be the case what-so-ever. I want happiness a heck of a lot more than I want to be married. I don't even want to get engaged until I graduate from college let's be honest here. Yeah, we are to the points in our lives that everyone is looking to get married and settle down, but why settle down when you haven't gotten to where you are going yet? I plan on settling down. I really do, after I have a certificate and a degree and a good job; and most importantly when I am positive I have found the person I want to spend the rest of my life with.

I also feel that kids are on everyones list of things that are required, seriously at this point none of us need kids of our own too many parents of my peers are still having kids, seriously don't bother having your own your parents are going to leave you theirs. The world is over populated now, and seriously we don't all need kids to be happy, and they don't need to be our kids if we decide we do want kids.

I want happiness, I want to get married, I want security and some day I may want kids. However, now is not the time for any of it.

Yesterday really was at the park

It was in the 50's yesterday and beautiful out I needed to be outside. I went to dinner came back ran a search for parks and found one thats like a block away. Well culture shock. I wanted to swing, and I did. Next to me was a couple with two little boys I am assuming were twins. They were tiny could not have been over 2 or 3 years old. Well they were swinging and running around with their parents. Well there about 3 parents in this whole park and about 150 kids, poor side of the city. Well, the couple tells the boys they can't swing anymore because the girls next to them are swearing. I didn't hear them swearing at all but okay. I was swinging and texting a friend and enjoying the sunshine. When I got ready to leave I took the long way out of the park. In front of me was those two little boys and their parents and they were getting into a car. The next thing I know the one boy is running up the sidewalk about half a block away from his parents and they are standing there calling him and telling him goodbye they are going to leave him there, repeatedly, not moving an inch. Eventually the guy walks towards him, the kids seriously almost in the road but headed into the park again. The guy just walks ever so slow towards the kid and the kid turns around looks at him and starts telling his father "Fuck you! Go Away! Fuck you!" This boy wasn't more than two or three years old! I was dumbfounded!