Marriage and Weddings

I went to a wedding yesterday, and I enjoyed it. Previously I've associated weddings with adults, friends of the family, and the most enjoyable part of them was the free food. Then a few years ago both my older brothers got married. I enjoyed those weddings, but in both I was part of the bridal party, and so it didn't feel like a real wedding. Plus I was too busy to actually appreciate what was going on.

This time, the wedding was different in so many ways. I knew both the bride and the groom equally, I am good friends with them both; It's the first wedding of my 'peers', I knew them both from uni; and it's the first wedding I've been to since being in a relationship myself.

Seeing the wedding in this new light made it so much more enjoyable, I couldn't stop smiling, because I could see how happy my friends were, and I was excited for their new life. I was able to appreciate what an amazing thing marriage is, and I now see what a great gift it is.

Plus, now I kind of want one too.

The Right Reason

Is it right to do the right thing, but for the wrong reason, knowing that it's for the right reason? That sentence is confusing, so i'll explain the concept a bit. Sometimes it's hard to do the right thing for the right reason. I don't normally steal things, and I don't find it hard to resist it, but not because I know that i'm really stealing from the shops owners, just because I don't want to get arrested. It's good that I don't steal, but it would be better if I did it for the right reasons. So coming back to my initial question, what if I chose to be scared of getting arrested because I knew it would stop me stealing because it would hurt the shop owners. So on the basis of one reason I decide not to do it for another...

 

hmm, I'm not sure if I was able to explain that, let alone justify whether it's right or wrong.