Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Of Age

It seems like the cool thing to do these days is to get married. Why not, right? A guy and a girl get twitterpated, and before you know it he’s buying the rock and they’re tying the knot.

Over the summer my roommate Rich and I took a couple girls in our ward on a double date. I’m not exactly sure what my date is up to all these months later, but his was sealed to him in the temple today.

When Nikki came home with my current roommate Mitch after they got engaged last Saturday, she was radiating exactly 60 gazillion watts of pure joy. It must be such an exciting and wonderful time.

The most recent close friend of mine to pop the question is my MTC companion and former roommate Mark. He got engaged last night to an awesome girl.

I never believed I would reach this period of my life. People my age aren’t supposed to be getting married. I never thought my friends and roommates would be the ones on the wedding announcements pinned behind our LDSSingles.com freezer magnet*.

I remember the good old days when girls had cooties, and only the most athletic of tom boys were respected on the soccer field at recess. Somehow something changed sometime between then and my college days. But even serious relationships freshmen year weren’t really serious.

Apparently that has changed now, too.

Now before you get any ideas, I’m not hinting at anything. I have no plans to jump on the bandwagon of love and get engaged any time soon. Since I’ve been home from my mission, I’ve actually been pretty scared by the idea. Because of this I’ve probably even scared myself away from potential relationships.

But due to the recent events noted above, I’m finally being forced to make the following conclusion:

People my age really do get married, and in all the time I've know them, they have never been happier.

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*Before you go look me up... no, I don’t have a profile. We also have LDSSingles.com stickey notes and a pencil. It was an advertisement in a baggie on our door knob one day, and it's one of our only magnets.

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