pretty amazing grace

another sister will get married this saturday...sometimes, i admire them for their courage to do that...hindi ko din naman sila masisisi, alam ko naman din na there is a higher factor in their decision to get married, that is, to be able to somehow, make something for their babies...well, they have something more than getting married...
they say marriage is one of the biggest event in someone's life...that's why it's so important...but nowadays, when the age of people getting married is getting younger and younger (my two sisters were 18 and 19), i wonder if this very hifalutin view of marriage change a bit...

did it lose its wonders...did it diminished in importance...

we all know about the first marriage literally made in heaven...that of adam and eve...on the garden of eden...now, that's something...surreal...classic...

i believe the concept of marriage somehow did decreased in quality, in state, and people's viewpoint...

i believe that what used to be very sacred and superb then is becoming very practical and very ordinary nowadays...the overwhelming number of people getting involved in premarital sex and especially those who get pregnant at an early age (teens, that is) seem to indirectly states the current trend when it comes to this thing called marriage...although, there are those who say that people are becoming more mature these days (that say they want to get married at a later age, 25 and up), i think this is just a minority compared to those get married (either willingly or because of circumstances) at an early age...

why am i bothering these things anyway...maybe because i'm still pondering upon the thoughts two of my younger sisters are already married (two this coming saturday)...and because i just feel like talking about it...and because our topic last teaching session at dcbc was about marriage, divorce and remarriage...some biblical perspectives on these three...

someday soon, i too could well be getting married also...might as well, think about these now, than later on...
but i do hope that my sisters' marriage will be successful...my parents' are...i think...well, they're still together now...i'm one of those gifted people who were raised in a complete family...although, my father have to work far from us so he could sustain his growing family...i still think we were a happy, complete family...of course there are several things that was taken for granted, because we are a biiggg family...so not all of us one way or the other were satisfied on how it was done...but that's another story...i still think that God has been very kind to us by making our family intact amidst several other concerns...

so i cannot really relate to those who came from a broken family...but i've have glimpses of how it is...hard and emotionally heartbreaking and physically tiring and spiritually trying and all sorts of things...though i cannot really sympathize in a way of putting myself in their shoes because i did not experience that...i can always say i sympathize with them but not to that extent though of putting myself in their shoes...it's harder to put yourself in somebody else's shoes: knowing, feeling the same way...

i'm just thinking...i hope my sisters' marriage will be equally successful as my parents...at least successful in a way that they will still be together even after nearly 25 years of marriage...and i also can hope that my own marriage someday will be like that and even more...

I have always been fond of eating chocolates and drinking coffee. But it's only when I'm at this point in my life that I was able to see a deeper sense of meaning on these two. And it's quite funny how people tend to attach more meaning to very simple things (or food, for that) just so it could affect them in a very personal way. I think that's just what I did with coffee and chocolate. It is my way of putting them in my own perspective. It's my way of making them my own. Of course, coffee and chocolate are everywhere, and in many different forms. But when we attach a meaning into it, something that we have attached to it on our own, we tend to believe that it is ours. But actually, there may also be a thousand more people out there who think the same way. Very interesting!

We are in a world where the meanings and symbolisms are rather used frequently, in an attempt to discover a new sense of being. They are an important aspect of human life (or human nature) I guess, and there is indeed something very much we could learn from the symbolic interactionists. Hmm, I guess I have to review my theories one of these days. Have to practice your sociological brain cells every now and then to not loose those very perspective I've tried to understand for 5 or 6 years.

I'm just in a thinking mode I guess. Nothing much to tell, although my brain is wacking me up these days, with all the pressures and everything! I have much to tell really, only, it's much easier to say something that's not bothering you rather than about what's occupying your mind. At least you have a time off from thinking those things. **winks** But of course, it's just a rather small amount of time. Upon clicking the "Publish Post" button, all these philosophizing or sociologizing will disappear because I have more important things to attend to.