Chamber005
Carbonite Member
Yay!
Pretty cool doings. My girl and I plus our two best friends and my best friend's daughter got together on Sunday and walked down to the Old Town Art Fair just a couple blocks over. Best artists in Chicago, super awesome time.
My girl had grabbed a minister to meet us there at the beginning of the week. We walked over with the flowers and rings and stuff and there's this one artist's work who I love and who is a super awesome guy and I asked him if we could get married real quick in his booth which is big and black and the walls are covered in his photos which are these stark oranges, blues and yellows and he's all stoked and gives us the go ahead. So we get on with it and all the other artists who were setting up their booths all came over to watch and when it was over we were introduced and everyone was cheering and clapping even as we walked back out of the fair and people on the street are giving us well-wishes, etc.
I think it even topped the smooth coolness of the original proposal. Just a great time. And then the artist gives us this huge matted piece called "Soul to Soul" as a wedding present -- just too cool for words, seriously.
So, yay! It's weird being married being that I'm someone who has never experienced a couple who got married that didn't end in divorce or misery, but I'm just taking it all one day at a time, experiencing whatever feelings I have and focusing on all of the positives. It appears so far that marraige reduces my ability to imagine innumberal futures, kind of like a tunneling of imagery and perspective? There's something depressing but satisfying in the adjustment. I now know that I'll never be a single person living in Ireland working as a fly fisherman, for instance. It feels odd to know "possibility" is now limited, but I feel I understand and know myself well enough that whatever possibilities I truly crave in my life, my wife can be an aspect of those.
It's an adjustment, but I think the reduction in overall possibility will enhance the ones that still remain.
So, yay!
Pretty cool doings. My girl and I plus our two best friends and my best friend's daughter got together on Sunday and walked down to the Old Town Art Fair just a couple blocks over. Best artists in Chicago, super awesome time.
My girl had grabbed a minister to meet us there at the beginning of the week. We walked over with the flowers and rings and stuff and there's this one artist's work who I love and who is a super awesome guy and I asked him if we could get married real quick in his booth which is big and black and the walls are covered in his photos which are these stark oranges, blues and yellows and he's all stoked and gives us the go ahead. So we get on with it and all the other artists who were setting up their booths all came over to watch and when it was over we were introduced and everyone was cheering and clapping even as we walked back out of the fair and people on the street are giving us well-wishes, etc.
I think it even topped the smooth coolness of the original proposal. Just a great time. And then the artist gives us this huge matted piece called "Soul to Soul" as a wedding present -- just too cool for words, seriously.
So, yay! It's weird being married being that I'm someone who has never experienced a couple who got married that didn't end in divorce or misery, but I'm just taking it all one day at a time, experiencing whatever feelings I have and focusing on all of the positives. It appears so far that marraige reduces my ability to imagine innumberal futures, kind of like a tunneling of imagery and perspective? There's something depressing but satisfying in the adjustment. I now know that I'll never be a single person living in Ireland working as a fly fisherman, for instance. It feels odd to know "possibility" is now limited, but I feel I understand and know myself well enough that whatever possibilities I truly crave in my life, my wife can be an aspect of those.
It's an adjustment, but I think the reduction in overall possibility will enhance the ones that still remain.
So, yay!
