Concentrate on yourself, your passions and love will follow. Love will find you when you are ready and you know what you want. Ask your self: What makes you happy in life? What is important to you? Truly important? Don't change people including yourself. Love yourself first and know what you want and TRUE love will follow... Hug a dog and kiss a frog...

That's the problem if you listen to everyone else and not your heart. You can have both career and love. They don't have to be mutually exclusive, You might find yourself having to make a few sacrifices to have both but love is worth it.

Because people want to tell you how THEY would do it. They like to tell you things that they wish they did, and it can be very annoying. I suggest doing what you think is good/best, and make yourself happy. You can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself!

The pulse rate in a new born baby is about 140 beats per minute. This pulse rate gradually reduces during the Koumaaram period and settles down to it's stable value of 76 beats per minute after the age of 24 years. Different sects in the world have different criteria to declare a person to become a youth. The Indian tradition says that a person becomes a youth on his 25th birth day, taking the stable heat beat value into consideration. " At the age of 25, the body is at its peak: this is when nature decrees that we should reproduce. Muscle tissue, joint mobility, brain and sexual functions are all at a prime. Body organs are all at optimum health. It's all downhill from here. Skin is the first organ to show signs of ageing - it becomes less elastic, and less able to repair." http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4212121-103425,00.html The Royal College of Surgeons has found that the brain does not mature completely until the age of 25 for men and 23 for women. http://www.walk.com.au/pedestriancouncil/Page.asp?PageID=1919 http://familiesforfairness.org/ There is a lot of regional variation in the process. Maturation starts in the parts of the brain needed to keep us alive, such as those controlling heart rate and breathing. The next parts of the brain to mature are those involved in processing the five senses, followed by the parts of the brain that link together the primary senses. Then there is a cascade of hierarchies linking the linkings. The final stop is the frontal lobe, which doesn’t reach adult levels until about age 25. http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11766&page=17 The teenage brain, like the teenage skull, is a work in progress. Its wiring is incomplete. The various parts of the brain are not yet working in the harmony (or well-tuned disharmony) which comes with adulthood. The research of Janet Werker and others indicates that culture plays an enormous role in the wiring of the infant brain. To what extent does culture and one's position in it, one's interests, occupation, or place in the hierarchy, guide the cerebral wiring which takes place during the teen years? Skulls, by the way, are arranged in plates. These plates slide over each other, allowing the head to virtually fold like an accordion when the about-to-be newborn is pushed forcibly through a very tight place--the passageway leading from the womb to the outer world. Surprisingly, these skull plates are still not completely knit together when a young adult has reached the ripe age of 25. It is not so shocking, then, that the brain too is a work still in the making when one is old enough to date and possibly to even pick a mate. http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/brain.html He reminded people that the “teenage brain is not the finished product....In fact, he said, on average, the brain isn’t finished wiring until people reach age 25. http://www.edenprairienews.com/node/930 I can tell you that must young people should not and cannot be mature enough to be in a "mature" relationship; that comes after the age of 25. http://www.dailyemerald.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticleComments&ustory_id=d2f6b1b1-696a-4e2c-82a8-f12fc647e237&refsource=collegeheadlines Should Those Under 25 Be Barred from Driving? Risky Behavior Diminishes At Age 25, NIH Study Finds. http://ethics.tamucc.edu/articles/05/02/02/0015215.shtml Elders have that wisdom. So they advice marriage between the age 25 to 30 years. Their intention is that a life time bond should happen at the proper time to be fruitful. Every thing in nature has a proper time to be fruitful.

Because people like to tell other people what to do. Ignore them and do what you know is best for you. Falling in love is fun. I guess they just want to ensure financial security before they fall into love. If you think about it, that is a pretty good mindset. However, I personally don't see a problem with falling in love before you're 30 as long as it's with the right person.

Because these mythical people are trying to help someone and the advice they give may be appropriate to the one it is given. When someone you know gives you some advice about your (personal)life, try to remember they want to help you. If you are reading advice such as what you are quoting in your question, take what works for you, and ignore the rest, because it doesn't apply to you.