Social Un-Norms

So last night, after a night of drinking, a couple of my friends and I sat down for a late night snack and started talking about the general social norms of dating.

The focus of our discussion was primarily about dating people 5 years out of your age grouping, and the problem we had was that we couldn't really verbalize what was weird or wrong about it. There's a point where saying it's just weird is juvenile and if the person really does care for the person, then you can't really use superficial reasons as a legitimate reason, which makes us sadly realize that there's so much superficiality in this discussion, but when it came to the root of it we started looking at why this never actually occurs. The first few reasons had to do with superficial reasons, but otherwise we discussed common interests since most of the time 5 years is the border of sharing common interests with a person, and practicality, normally someone 5 years older than you is looking for different things like marriage, a family, etc. whereas you are looking to start your life. But the root of the issue stemmed from the age old fact of dating, if they're happy with each other, and are able to overcome these differences then at the end of the day it doesn't really matter. We all want to fit in, but stepping outside of the box isn't a terrible idea.