I am fed up with excuses for unhappiness.
I am tired of hearing that life is only wonderful during youth. That families and mortgages are perpetual black rain clouds. Enjoy life now because it's all downhill after graduation. I refuse to believe that circumstance or age are in control of contentment. I understand that relationships can be stressful, and that carrying for children is a task. However, it makes me sick to hear children and spouses being spoken of as nothing more than baggage and a burden. Claiming that happiness was only abundant during the young, single stretch of life is an allegation that life was better before those loved ones were a part of it. If that's the way things are, the personal choice to get married and start a family merits no pity. Life is about making choices and moving with them. If you made some wrong ones, work on making the best of them and stop blaming your displeasure on a stage in life.
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aw you preachin' sista!
ReplyDeleteI can most definitely relate to all of the above. Or rather, I've heard many take on that voice of discontent. It's amazing how that way of thinking has become almost a sort of joke in popular culture...the "baggage yet necessity" that is marriage and aging. It's an easy school of thought to prescribe to.
But I think you are completely right. You have the choice of how to view life and love and time. It is a choice.
oh my gosh. never get married you will be miserable. enjoy not being tied down while you still can....
ReplyDeleteYEAH RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!people who say things like that a retarded and disrespectful. i love being married and i am much happier now with matt than i was before. marriage doesn't crippple you. AND people don't get married just because they want to have sex (despite what some people we know might think). i like this post. and i agree with it. i enjoy being able to spend my eternity with someone that i love and that makes me better. and im excited to grow old despite the responsibilities it might bring.
responsibility does not always equal unhappiness!
ReplyDeleteWell said Natalie! You know my take on it! If wearing rose colored glasses, dancin in the rain and singin happy songs in all situations is wrong - then I am all wrong and lovin it!!!!!!!! :-)
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