Befuddled

Alright, this is an incident that's been on my mind for over a month now (since it happened) and in the interest of not being repetitive in my posts, I've avoided saying anything but now I can't help it anymore. My parents were talking about my brother getting married, and they mentioned that they don't want him to marry a girl who's pursuing medicine because it'd take too long for her to get settled, and it's just not worth the wait. Now, you readers should know by now that I'm pursuing medicine. So I was sitting there listening to this and I was like "Umm... hello?"

They turned to me and responded, "Don't worry, we'll find you a nice doctor boy who will understand what you're doing."

Uhh, right. So I'm not really sure when educational pursuits became an issue that only certain people could "understand" according to my parents. My dad didn't finish school until his late 20's, but I guess that's different because....

What?

This makes no sense. I was taken aback by this; my parents are the last people I expected to say such a thing. Understand what I'm doing? What?... Now I don't want to marry a doctor, just to spite them. I know, I'm quite grown up.