Friday, May 28, 2010

I am going to start posting reality when it comes to me these days. Not facts and not fiction, not something that was said to me or taught to me, not something I read or wrote about... things I realize are true through observation and experience. They may be controversial, as not all of us experience the exact same events in the exact same way. Sometimes when I am in the middle of a situation and my brain's wheels are turning so fast, I wish I could just jump out and climb into someone else's body. That I could feel what their body feels like, think what their brain thinks like and embody emotions in the same way their heart is an embodiment of love and truth and peace, then I think I could be more complete. The thing is, I would have to jump into all the millions of people living in our universe to really know truth, so that is why I am calling these "my" truths. Sure, I do believe the world teaches them to me and I don't believe it is an accident, but you and I occupy different spaces on the ground.
Today's truth: Do not be a person of faith and become pregnant out of wedlock. Why? Because for the rest of your life, people will not trust that you can make choices. It was so clearly a wrong choice you made. Actually, many wrong choices that accumulated for a long time before the fruits of your actions sprung forth.
Rather, you should become married at a very young age (either at a young chronological age or when you are young because of a lack of life experience) and then have children while you are still partly a child, learning to become an adult, and everyone will trust that you had that childs' best interest at heart and your best interest at heart and your husbands' best interests at heart and you made the right choice to have a child within a marriage. However, when I see these choices, I realize that there is such thing as premature marriage and premature sex and premarital sex and premarital pregnancy. The most important thing is maturity for marriage and maturity for parenthood. Of course it is true that we are always gaining wisdom. My question is, How much wisdom do you want to bring into your marriage and, more importantly, how much wisdom do you want to give to your children?"
Every great teaching in the world tells us that life is not gain, it is sacrifice. If you have gained nothing, are but a child yearning for life experience, how can you commit to give all that you have, if what you have is not enough for you?

1 comment:

Tyler McCabe said...

I always miss your blog presence. :) Not to put pressure on you, not at all. Just, I'm definitely a fan of your free form thoughts.