All you need is Love?
I went to the doctor's yesterday so that I could get yet another mantoux shot. I couldn't find the paperwork from the test I got done in October for my student teaching, and I needed to have a confirmation of negative response by a doctor, in order to finish my application for substitute teacher in the town of Ridegfield, which is the town next to mine. Their high school is about five minutes away, so it, like my own town's school, is easy to get to.
Anyway, the office was backed up and my dad had somewhere else to go, so since the line was long we were going to save our place at the doctor and come back. My dad called home to let my mom know that, and she flipped on him, prompting a fight. They haven't really talked for two days :/
My dad had to get a haircut, so while we were at his barber, he was talking to him about it, and when we were leaving, as a joke, the barber, his name is Pete, whispered to me never to get married.
I know he was joking, and I thought it was still funny, but there is a seriousness to the thought as well.
People I know from high school are starting to get engaged and are getting married, and all I have to show for myself are a couple of failed distance college relationships.
Recently, I've kinda looked at the whole marriage thing as for the people that deserve it.
By deserve it, I mean the people who took those leaps of faith and when out and found their special someone, someone they love deeply and truly connect with.
They didn't fear rejection, they didn't let their little quarks stop them, they just went for it.
Courage like that, is one of the best things ever. I wish I had some.
A couple times in the past, I've also looked at it as marriage isn't for everyone.
Some people aren't meant to be in a lifelong bond. Others aren't meant to reproduce.
It's the nature order of things.
It seems like a depressing way to look at it, but that's what happens when you're a pessimist. Glass 3/4's empty. Believer in Murphy's Law. Etc. Etc.
There is a piece of me that likes to believe it will get easier as I continue to get older.
Especially because I haven't really started my career yet.
But there is another part of me that wants to start looking at breeds of dogs, and become the crazy dog guy that lives down the block and talks to himself why mowing the lawn.
Anyway, the office was backed up and my dad had somewhere else to go, so since the line was long we were going to save our place at the doctor and come back. My dad called home to let my mom know that, and she flipped on him, prompting a fight. They haven't really talked for two days :/
My dad had to get a haircut, so while we were at his barber, he was talking to him about it, and when we were leaving, as a joke, the barber, his name is Pete, whispered to me never to get married.
I know he was joking, and I thought it was still funny, but there is a seriousness to the thought as well.
People I know from high school are starting to get engaged and are getting married, and all I have to show for myself are a couple of failed distance college relationships.
Recently, I've kinda looked at the whole marriage thing as for the people that deserve it.
By deserve it, I mean the people who took those leaps of faith and when out and found their special someone, someone they love deeply and truly connect with.
They didn't fear rejection, they didn't let their little quarks stop them, they just went for it.
Courage like that, is one of the best things ever. I wish I had some.
A couple times in the past, I've also looked at it as marriage isn't for everyone.
Some people aren't meant to be in a lifelong bond. Others aren't meant to reproduce.
It's the nature order of things.
It seems like a depressing way to look at it, but that's what happens when you're a pessimist. Glass 3/4's empty. Believer in Murphy's Law. Etc. Etc.
There is a piece of me that likes to believe it will get easier as I continue to get older.
Especially because I haven't really started my career yet.
But there is another part of me that wants to start looking at breeds of dogs, and become the crazy dog guy that lives down the block and talks to himself why mowing the lawn.