Marriage Is A Journey

"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." John Steinbeck

there is something powerful about this place. it is magical in my opinion. at the age of twenty three, i said "i will." while looking into the joyful, tearful eyes, of my twenty year old bride, i made a promise. it is strange when i think about what i would have done had we never met. i experience a sort of sunken sadness when i try to imagine my journey being any different. there is still something wild, and untamable about marriage. you gain a greater understanding of another, and develop navigation systems when buffeted by the storms life brings, but you can never plan or control what is to come. we hunker down and batten the hatches together. neither of us can control what our lives might undergo, but we go through it together. not perfect, not without mistake, not without pain, not without getting our wires crossed, but always connected. marriage is not easy, but it is SO worth it when you find that one other human that says, "i will" too.