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Why Getting Married Young Should Not Be Dismissed

If a nineteen-year-old young man came up to you and told you that he's going to get married before the year is out, what would your reaction be? If a young woman in college were to tell you she's engaged to be married before she gets her degree, what would your face say?  For many of us, the answer to both questions is that we would certainly respond with surprise, and possibly, depending on how well we know the person, with dutiful dissuasion. But is this really our job? In fact, when it comes right down to it, is it even a good thing to encourage young people to postpone marriage into the late twenties?  Society today has a very specific formula to be followed for individuals who wish to get married. First comes the completion of High School and the acquisition of a GED or equivalent. Then comes the search for a field and the pursuit of a four-year college degree or 一 though less smiled upon 一 a vocational school education. Next comes the entrance of the now socially-labe
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The Burden of the Bereaved

There once was a man who carried in tow a burden of pitiable nature. The burden was not of great weight or size, but disturbing beyond compare, for it had once been alive. This man’s burden, which dragged behind him like a shadow, was the body of his beloved. She died—not in an accident—as many would suppose, but by her own choice, made in a moment of weighty despair. Following her death, the bereaved man went about his life, and the body of his beloved did too. When the bereaved took a meal, her body lay behind his chair. When he lay down, the body was there. When he rose up, the body rose too; not in life of its own, but in obedience to cords which stretched between the bereaved and his beloved. The cords were not of a physical nature, but were the kind of ties which connect two hearts and that are woven by four hands over the course of many sleepless nights. Years passed. The body which ever dragged behind the bereaved man became mangled and distorted from its rough contact with the

Why Marriage Should Be Standard Practice

In today's culture, getting married is often not perceived as a positive course of action. Young people today are frequently advised by collective culture to postpone getting married for as long as possible. In fact, marriage at any age is becoming less of a conventional practice. Overall, it's becoming less encouraged by old and less desired by young. In this article, I'm going to address why marriage as a standard choice should be reprioritized and give several reasons that it should be the standard choice for humanity. In the first section, I will debunk several religious arguments which have been used to justify the decline of marriage. In the second section, I will detail the plethora of scientific, medical, physical, emotional, and statistical benefits marriage entails.  The Correct Conventional Choice As a member of Generation Z, the independent, self-sufficiency freaks, I will likely be in treacherous territory by suggesting that marriage should be the standard choi