What is Love?
Sure it's a song by Haddaway that Chris Kattan and Will Ferrell used to dance to to try and get chicks in a Saturday Night Live sketch, but it's more than just that.
My grandparents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary yesterday. They were married June 30th, 1956, and they are still around and still married to each other.
That's a pretty strong accomplishment. Everybody jokes about old, married couples, how they argue and communicate with each other, and my grandparents are the typical example of that old, married couple, but they both know that each of them would be nowhere without the other one. It was such a treat to see a couple that have been married that long reach that milestone, the Golden Anniversary.
I have the privilege of being able to see my grandparents everyday, I even work for/with my grandfather. It is a privilege that not many people get to achieve, and it is one that even less enjoy when they have the opportunity.
For me, though, it is a blessing. It is wonderful to see a couple who care for each other so tenderly that they can get past their misunderstandings and fall back in love every night when they go home together. They even fed each other wedding cake at the party, just like they did when they were married, fifty years ago.
I am about to attend another party for two friends of mine from high school, who were each other's high school sweethearts, and are getting married themselves in about five weeks. It makes me wonder about the institution of marriage and about what love really means. How has love and marriage changed in the last fifty years?
In today's day and age of divorce, untraditional relationships, and extremely cautious dating, it makes me wonder whether the love that is shared between my two high school friends is the same kind of love that was shared by my grandparents on their wedding day?I guess only time will tell.
We've all got to go sometime.
My grandparents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary yesterday. They were married June 30th, 1956, and they are still around and still married to each other.
That's a pretty strong accomplishment. Everybody jokes about old, married couples, how they argue and communicate with each other, and my grandparents are the typical example of that old, married couple, but they both know that each of them would be nowhere without the other one. It was such a treat to see a couple that have been married that long reach that milestone, the Golden Anniversary.
I have the privilege of being able to see my grandparents everyday, I even work for/with my grandfather. It is a privilege that not many people get to achieve, and it is one that even less enjoy when they have the opportunity.
For me, though, it is a blessing. It is wonderful to see a couple who care for each other so tenderly that they can get past their misunderstandings and fall back in love every night when they go home together. They even fed each other wedding cake at the party, just like they did when they were married, fifty years ago.
I am about to attend another party for two friends of mine from high school, who were each other's high school sweethearts, and are getting married themselves in about five weeks. It makes me wonder about the institution of marriage and about what love really means. How has love and marriage changed in the last fifty years?
In today's day and age of divorce, untraditional relationships, and extremely cautious dating, it makes me wonder whether the love that is shared between my two high school friends is the same kind of love that was shared by my grandparents on their wedding day?I guess only time will tell.
We've all got to go sometime.
posted by Leland J. Fischer at 7:16 PM
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