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It’s a strange feeling knowing you’re going to be married in less than a month. Strange, but very exciting. Especially when you consider the fact you are marrying not only someone you completely love, but who completely loves you in return. And that’s how it should be. I feel the urge to express my feelings of how lucky I feel. I feel lucky because this girl, who is so wonderful and amazing, is not only that, but so very wonderful and amazing to me. She is kind, considerate and patient. Not just in general, but specifically with me and everybody she meets.
Along with the feelings of love, comes that wonderful devotion towards one another. Mutual devotion is something I have never actually experienced, in most my past relationships, they’ve always been more weighted on one side or the other. So finally experiencing a level of commitment that is equal on both sides is… refreshing. Honestly, if you would have asked me prior to the first week of this semester, I would have told you I would be single for years. But as luck, destiny or the man upstairs would have it, that is not the case for me. And though the circumstances are not what I would have imagined them being a mere three months ago (ie, date for at least a year, an engagement around 2-3 months), I am happy at how things are turning out. I am actually MORE than happy at how things are turning out.
I’ll be the first to admit that things aren’t perfect. I have my issues that I’m bringing into the marriage, and she has hers. Guess what? That’s not a bad thing, cause that’s how it’s meant to be. My marriage wont be perfect either, and I’m glad. Because then it would be boring. My marriage is going to be work, which is great, it means I will learn and grow a lot. Not just as an individual, but as a husband and father, with my wife. I’m excited for the challenges. I’m stoked for those hard times, be they days, weeks, months or years. Because when we come out of them, we’ll be stronger, and we’ll be able to say we stuck by each other no matter what. To me, marriage isn’t about love, yeah, love should be present and a major reason behind getting married. But the actual time of BEING married is more about the other person, it’s about how you’re serving them and treating them like a queen (or king). And if they’re doing the same thing, then everything else will follow. (Yes, it’s a bit of a simplistic view, but true none-the-less.)
With that said, I’m excited to get married in a little more than a score of days. It’s going to be one of the happiest days of my entire life. I couldn’t be more pleased with whom I am getting married to either!
Down, Down for the Dow… bad?
Really? I mean, REALLY people? Ok, maybe for some of you that aren’t aware, but the Dow Jones has dropped below 7,000 points. You’re also probably not aware that it hasn’t done that since it rose above the 7k mark in the end of April 1997. This should be a very big deal to every American, because the Dow is showing no signs of stopping it’s steep downward plunge. Now it might be a bigger deal to some than to others, it might have different impacts on varying people. Also, it may appear as one thing to you, and something else to me.
I’m not an expert on the economy by any means, I’m just your average American college student. Yet to me, what’s happening to the market was unavoidable, in fact we were setting ourselves up for it. We were burning at full steam for over a decade, revving our American made Ford engine at 10,000 RPMs for a thousand miles. The economy told us it was in trouble far before our current crisis. The engine started shaking slightly, a few putters and drops in oil pressure were felt, even the steering column started acting funny. Yet we payed no heed, kept the pedal to the floor. Then BAM! The engine bursts into flames and we’re rolling to a stop. Fortunately for us, the economy isn’t any old engine, this is a high tech piece of machinery, so high tech in fact, it fixes itself. If you disagree, then you obviously haven’t heard of the Great Depression or the recession of the ’80’s.
The economy is doing exactly what it needs to do to get back to a normal operating speed and temperature. Sadly for Americans, it means millions of us will lose jobs, homes and everything. In fact, the economy will incur a penalty on us for not taking better care of it, and OVER correct itself, causing mounds of extra pain, so we might remember to pamper it better. That is why I’ve been heard to say that this is simply a ‘normalization’ of the market. Yes, banks going under, companies going bankrupt, homes being foreclosed on and unemployment on the rise, is very quit normal.
If you disagree, than you most likely believe that we are entitled to, or somehow deserve to have an untouchable economic boom at all times. You probably don’t think that actively, but you most likely think something along the lines of; recession=bad. Pause and really think about it, really contemplate the ability of the economy to sustain continued economic growth for decade upon decade. Sure, the net growth of the economy should be up, but the downward spikes ARE necessary. You can’t go up, without there being a down.
My Sci-Fi 
