I've got mail!
One thing I looked forward to when I began blogging was reader feedback. I didn't expect a whole lot at first, since I mentioned the existence of this blog to only a few friends. Since I began on August 20, however, I have received no feedback and few hits. I figure that either I have nothing interesting to say, or else my friends just suck. I received my first piece of feedback today, though, and it contains some excellent and encouraging thoughts, so I'm marking the occasion by sharing the feedback with both of my other readers. This comes from Nick:
TV totally reflects and reinforces society's views against marriage. A friend of mine and I were talking about this a few weeks ago, how people are now wary of anyone who gets married without living together first. Stuff on Friends would have been taboo not more than a few decades ago when we were kids. Even the older generation, the ones who stayed married for 30+ years, happily or for whatever reason otherwise joke about it...this one old guy in one of the bands I play in is always musing how he "would have been a millionaire if he'd stayed single instead of broke and having headaches with his kids," and he berated the band leader's son when he settled down and got married a few years ago for doing so. People feel pressure from peers, from adults, from media to act contrary to traditional values, and it's all flipflopped. Still I look at my parents and how they did things, and I want to follow their example (except for the part where they got married late and now risk not living to see grandchildren at the rate I'm going). They fight sometimes (moreso when they were younger) over stupid things like most couples do, whether it be tracking grease in the house or overwaxing the floor then telling my mom he didn't touch the floor when she gets home even though you can smell it and it's mad slippery etc. But they do stuff together like gardening and shopping, and just the other day they went on a "date" and drove out east to go apple-picking, and they've stayed together for over 30 years and always went to church. I'd love to be able to say the same when I'm in my 70s.
Wow, that set me rambling. Good thought-provoking site, though.
Thanks, Nick.
