It's pretty funny, I'm 9 minutes (and counting) from birthday number 32, and for some gosh darn (edited) reason I decided to check my facebook before going to sleep tonight. And not that I was really focusing in on it or anything, but you kind of notice: like 50% of my Facebook friends are from my high school or from those years in general. And I kind of consider myself a guy who has been out and seen the world and made his own mark and all that B.S., and yet...it all comes back to Sheldon. So I wonder, how many have that experience? Not just Sheldon people, but all people: what percentage of your Friends grew up within 30 miles of your hometown? For most of us, I imagine it's an astonishing percentage.
It's so funny, but it kind of relates to a statistic I was talking about tonight with a buddy of mine. We were talking about marriage, and about two seemingly contradicting numbers: One, those who marry younger tend to divorce in higher numbers. Two, the best percentage of lasting marriages are those of high school sweethearts.
What's up with this?? It's all about home. You either marry with someone whom you know so well, it totally gels, or you marry someone whom you think you know, and then one of you gets all freaky and deicdes to leave because you need to discover your true self. Which is all well and good, except for that it seems that those of us who do that, tend to have even worse marriage experiences than those who don't.
Not that I'm cynical. Just rambling, and I have the right...as of one minute ago, I am 32. Love you all,
Mark
It's so funny, but it kind of relates to a statistic I was talking about tonight with a buddy of mine. We were talking about marriage, and about two seemingly contradicting numbers: One, those who marry younger tend to divorce in higher numbers. Two, the best percentage of lasting marriages are those of high school sweethearts.
What's up with this?? It's all about home. You either marry with someone whom you know so well, it totally gels, or you marry someone whom you think you know, and then one of you gets all freaky and deicdes to leave because you need to discover your true self. Which is all well and good, except for that it seems that those of us who do that, tend to have even worse marriage experiences than those who don't.
Not that I'm cynical. Just rambling, and I have the right...as of one minute ago, I am 32. Love you all,
Mark
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