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One of the main things I think dooms "marriage" or, "making a conscious decision to commit to being in a relationship with one person forever" (as long as that may be for you), is not having talked through what you expect from the "marriage". Too many people go into it with rose-tinted glasses so to speak, and don't actually sit down and say what they would like from the relationship and what they are willing to give for it to work. It seems cold and practical, but it's probably a smart thing to do.
That said, I still agree with the OP, it's a shot in the dark, whether it works out or not.
When I was 21 I'd think to myself that I'd like to have my first child by 27 - only reason I'd have for me to get "married" (in the sense of my definition up top). Because of the generation gap, and because of my kids being able to have me around longer. And also because I thought I'd be mature enough and stable enough financially for it.
I'm going to be 28 in May and there are no "weddings" or babies in sight. I still think that I'd like to have had kids sooner rather than later, but you can't really plan this sort of thing...just take life as it comes. I couldn't care except that we ladies have this little clock inside... mine is faintly ticking.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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