Broader View
This blog is for my personal commentary on issues we face today.
I am not in any way, shape or form an expert in marriage. While overall I am extremely happy in mine and would not change it for the world I realize that it is not perfect. We bicker a bit too much, which is mostly my fault. We don’t match up perfectly on all of our thoughts, but the important thing is that we adore each other and above all else want the other person to be happy. For the most part we also know how to compromise, and that’s what I want to talk about at the moment. Compromise is one of the keys to a good marriage. Things are not always going to go your way, no matter how much you want them to, and being able to put aside your disappointment and work together to find a compromise is crucial to a marriage that will last and remain strong and above all happy for both parties involved. I’m not saying I’m always good at it. I have a selfish streak a mile long and I know that, but it is tempered by the fact that I love my husband and want him to be as happy in our marriage as I am… and I’m more happy than I would have ever thought possible. Marriage is work, it’s hard and rough and dirty sometimes, but it’s worth it if you have the right person by your side. Sometimes you have to put aside the things you want, and concentrate on what you need together. The wants will come with work and time, but not if the needs aren’t taken care of first. Good and Evil. It’s a fine line to walk on a good day, on a bad day it’s nearly impossible to tell the difference between the two. Some days I feel good, and others I know I’m more than a little wicked. What defines the two? Who decides the difference between good and evil in the end? Some people would say that it is a matter for God. That to follow his word is the only way to walk a righteous path and ensure your place in heaven. That, however, begs the question doesn’t the book of God mention something about an eye for an eye? life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand Exodus 21:23, 24 Why? It’s the ultimate question and the bane of every parent’s existence. There can be no more important question. In fact some would say that everything comes down to that one question sooner or later. Why are we here? Why is the sky blue? Why am I sad? Why do you love me? Why? Welcome to my personal commentary blog. This will be filled with my random thoughts and musings, some of them more inane than others I’m sure. I have avoided personal blogging like the plague for many years while friends have been blogging away, but I really can’t ignore the way society has changed. We live in an ever changing circle of communities, some more than others, but no one can really escape this fact of life. I live in a neighborhood that could be considered a community, my family circle is another community, my real life friends form a third, and the internet forms yet a fourth community. These communities overlap and intertwine on a daily basis. From facebook to Elliquiy, an adult roleplay forum that I am extremely active in, I’ve come to realize that I am blessed to be touched by more people in my life than any other generation that came before me. We really are the global generation, and that has to change the way we perceive things in our daily lives. I have friends who I have never met face to face who I feel just as strong a connection to as those I see on a weekly basis. It colors everything from my perception of gender to my opinions on politics and religion. I question things that I don’t think my parents ever had any real concept of when they were my age. I may be doing my parents a disservice there, my mother has always been an open and accepting person, willing to listen to me rant on and on about politics, religion and sexual orientation without judging my words, but my point still stands.
