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Who Will You Marry?
Some Things to Consider
There’s a difficulty we all must face at one point or another in our lives; a decision that holds our destinies in the balance and can pivot the fate of our lives: Who will I marry?
I wish I could give you the step-by-step process on how to go about conducting the selection process. That’d be great. I could sell it and make millions. Instead I’m just here to rant talk.
There’s numerous reasons why people marry ranging from financial security to tradition to emotional reasons. This is a post about the emotional reasons.
I suppose the major concern with the question of who you’ll marry is realizing that you will have to serve someone for the rest of your life. Are you down for that? Can you even imagine such a thing? I’ve been a future-oriented person for a long time, but even the idea of thinking that far away makes me dizzy.
Nevertheless, the question’s out there. Now comes the cognitive dissonance. “Aren’t I a bit too selfish to serve someone else…forever? Oh, but I really want to get married though! I care about [person] and they’re good to me.”
The funny thing about this is that you cannot enter a marriage with this kind of thinking. You probably shouldn’t even enter a deli.
