I saw this sign (I'm sure the bride must have bought it) at a wedding rehearsal dinner yesterday.
Yes, the smiling bride was there ordering her soon to be groom around as they were setting up their party decorations. I'm sure today October 5th will would be the happiest day of their young lives.
Have you ever noticed that many movies end at the wedding ceremony?
Why is this? Because for the vast majority of marriages that is the best it ever gets! The pinnacle point of love.
Fast forward five, ten or fifteen years and with most people the bloom is off the rose.
Of course, there are couples that have been together 30, 40 and even 50 years but we all know they are the exceptions to the rule not the norm.
With the vast majority of people divorcing once, twice or even three times and if you look inside any Kingdom Hall they are not immune to this norm either. If fact their percentages my be even higher because of their children wanting marriages at at a time in their young live they barely know themselves let alone someone else.
So why does this seem to be the case?
Why for most of us we seem to have more than just one "soul mate" in our lives?
How and why is it that we seem to fall "in love" and "out of love" so easily?
I guess the Buddhist said it perfectly "Everything changes"
Simply put we change!
At the same time the person we are with, the love of our lives. changes too.
Who knows maybe love is like milk cartons they all have an expiration date on them. Maybe yours is 60 years of maybe it is 60 months.....how about 60 minutes?
Enjoy your milk while it is still fresh because it will.... change.