It's a Magical Week!

Ammon and Julie are now engaged!

Well, maybe not so much for me than for my wonderful roommate, Ammon. On Sept. 12, 2013, he officially proposed to the one and only Julie. We are happy for them and hope to put out more stories of them for their wedding in December.

You may be thinking: what does this has to do with me and the price of oil in the Middle East? I generally don't outline something unless it has some significance in my journey of progression. I'm not trying to be boastful or anything, but I am glad to have had a hand in this turn out, along with my other roommates and others who might have contributed to this great occasion (aside from the main protagonists in the pictures, obviously).

I won't go over the details of my conversations with Ammon before his commitment towards the wonderful lady to the left, but the gist of it goes like this:

Marriage is hard work. We can spend our whole life looking for that "perfect" person, but perfection simply does not exist (or maybe some people are that lucky and I've never heard of them). It's always going to involve work. The real question, then, is not so much about who you marry, but how much effort you are willing to put forth into the relationship to make it work. Don't get me wrong, the type of person you choose still do matter because that can either increase your workload or ease it. You marry who you think is the "perfect" companion; there's work. You marry someone who has nothing but mutual attraction for you; there's work, except there's going to be tons more of it to make it a happy marriage. This is the principle.

With that principle in mind...

When good ol' Spencer W. Kimball said that everyone can marry anyone and produce a happy marriage, he wasn't kidding. He didn't mean two persons come together and keep doing the same things they did when they were single. There are very few people, if any, that can walk into a marriage without changing their habits, problems, etc.

Perhaps one of the greatest issue with marriage today is the fact that more people are becoming selfish. More and more people want to stay the way they are and expect the other person to accommodate their lifestyles. Or, there's a bump in the road; a challenge and they simply give up. That simply won't work. Maybe you should ask the people in stable marriages about how they kept theirs working. Divorce is never the answer unless abuse and life-threatening situations are involved. Personally, I think I've picked up a few tips for the time I'm at that stage of life.

You've gained Karma!

It's ironic that I'm talking about marriage when I'm single and not dating anyone (for the moment). Regardless, through this little episode, I've gained karma!