Thank you! Yes! I always thought marriage was something you *had* to do. And now know so many divorced people who said they knew their marriages were a bad idea, but society told them it was what they had to do, so they did it. Marriage does not necessarily equal commitment. Plenty of people who get married hate each other, or aren't really committed. And plenty of committed people can't get married.
I recalled discussing medieval platonic same-sex commitment ceremonies in some medieval lit class...when we were younger, we used to celebrate our friendships all the time. because they were awesome. and we had rituals and injokes a parties that were just about us being friends.
I've made a public declaration. I've made a lot of them :P Maybe I will make a bigger one. If so, I would like to have a party. But I don't have the time/money/inclination for that right now. Still, I am committed. Or should be committed? One of the two.
Haha! You should be both committed and committed. I like marriage rituals...mostly because I like parties, public declarations and rituals in general. I love the idea of medieval-style, platonic, same-sex commitment ceremonies. We need more friend commitment rituals! Handfasting or password sharing or bloodbrotheryness...something. Matching tattoos? I dunno.
You protest too much. There are so few people you actually like that you might as well hang on to those of us you CAN tolerate. And yes, we already did the blood brother thing, as part of our twinification...you're already wedded to me, you're actually just in denial. Turns out, YOU can't live without ME. That's a fact, Jack. Squirm and bitch all you want, but we're more than co-dependant, we're co-reliant and symbiotic (parasitic really).
Do you think sharing passwords is the new blood brothering? It's kind of intimate, isn't it?
This is the second time I read your answers to Writer's Block and I always like it! :) You give so much insight in your answers to the questions at hand..
I love this whole discussion! My very best friend in the whole world, who also happens to be a girl, and I celebrate our anniversary every year. I was friends with her older sister in school and I asked the older sister to come to the lakes with me for a week. She couldn't so I took her little sister with me instead. She ended up being my closest friend in the world. She's 4 years younger than me. Anyway, we just celebrated our 23rd anniversary and every year, I go to numerous gas stations, dollar stores, and drug stores and I buy her the cheesiest, geekiest, most vomit-inducing plaque with horrible friendship poems on them. Haha I get bonus points if said plaque also has some kind of hideous metal bird or butterfly affixed to it. She has a wall in her home where she proudly displays the horror. Haha But I love her as much as I love any other member of my family and I will until I die. I'm all for same-sex platonic commitment ceremonies! As you can tell, I babble quite a bit. I love your thinky thoughts. Keep 'em coming!! And keep us
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I love this whole discussion! My very best friend in the whole world, who also happens to be a girl, and I celebrate our anniversary every year. I was friends with her older sister in school and I asked the older sister to come to the lakes with me for a week. She couldn't so I took her little sister with me instead. She ended up being my closest friend in the world. She's 4 years younger than me. Anyway, we just celebrated our 23rd anniversary and every year, I go to numerous gas stations, dollar stores, and drug stores and I buy her the cheesiest, geekiest, most vomit-inducing plaque with horrible friendship poems on them. Haha I get bonus points if said plaque also has some kind of hideous metal bird or butterfly affixed to it. She has a wall in her home where she proudly displays the horror. Haha But I love her as much as I love any other member of my family and I will until I die. I'm all for same-sex platonic commitment ceremonies! As you can tell, I babble quite a bit. I love your thinky thoughts. Keep 'em coming!! And keep us
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See, that's what I'm talking about. You've been in a 23 year relationship and that SHOULD be celebrated! There are tons of examples of friendships that last longer than marriages, and there should be some way to publically declare peple being committed to one another...like a familial adoption ceremony. Rock on
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I recalled discussing medieval platonic same-sex commitment ceremonies in some medieval lit class...when we were younger, we used to celebrate our friendships all the time. because they were awesome. and we had rituals and injokes a parties that were just about us being friends.
I've made a public declaration. I've made a lot of them :P Maybe I will make a bigger one. If so, I would like to have a party. But I don't have the time/money/inclination for that right now. Still, I am committed. Or should be committed? One of the two.
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I might propose to James this afternoon.
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Absofuckinglutely NO!
Although I think we already did the blood brother thing, didn't we? And we do share passwords.
No matching tattoos. No commitment ceremonies. Just be happy I acknowledge you at all. Dorkass!
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Do you think sharing passwords is the new blood brothering? It's kind of intimate, isn't it?
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Thank you! :)
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I like the writers block thingies, they give me an outlit for my incessant ranting.
Rock!
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No, a thousand times no.
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