Feature
One day, when I was in the eighth grade, I made a deal with a girl in my class. The deal was, if by the time both she and I were twenty-seven, and we were both not married, we would marry one another. I bring this up now because by the time you read this, I will be twenty-five years old. In two years I may be obligated by way of an eighth grade promise to get married. This is interesting to me, because it gives a peek inside my mind as an eighth grader. First, and most obviously, in the eighth grade I believed that by the time I reached twenty-seven years of age, and probably before, I would be married. In my mind, if I wasn’t married by twentyseven, something had gone wrong and I needed to get my misspent life back on
the right track. It wasn’t just me and my friend making this deal. I remember several other friends making similar plans for their futures that they apparently had figured out as eighth graders. It really speaks to how influential media is to our society, because this whole idea came from the movie My Best Friend’s Wedding, starring Julia Roberts. The only difference is that her deal was to occur on her twentyeighth birthday, not her twenty-seventh. Apparently someone in my class saw that movie, decided that such an agreement made sense, and decided to make preparations in case their life didn’t turn out how they envisioned. This leads to a good point, and some-