My Precarious Position

So here’s my precarious position.

Everyone around me is married. All my friends that are my age are married or engaged, or with child. I cringe at the thought of being with child. It sounds like a condition or a disease. I wonder if there’s a vaccine. Wait, I guess that’s birth control. I’m definitely not ready to be with child! And I don’t know if I ever will be, but that doesn’t matter when my friends call to tell me about the latest talent their child has discovered, like throwing food or kicking enough water out of the tub so none of it actually touches him/her. Even the people who are my younger brother’s age are getting married before me. What I’m trying to say is that I’ve had a bout of the envy lately.