I’m getting married
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I’m getting married
When I was in my early teens life revolved around the skating scene. I woke up early to skate, I skated with guys at the park/street, I watched, read, & talk about skating, and I skated before going to bed. My friends were all skaters and shared the same passion for the sport as I did.Women didn’t really have much of an effect on our lives at this point. We liked them, of course, but mostly for looking at and receiving profound praise for our skating ability.
I remember one summer, while dating a cute girl; I was asked to choose between my skates or her. I’m not really sure what came of my decision because I had to postpone the conversation to skate with some buddies.
A couple years passed and the same group slowly began to exchange their skates in for college books. After being gone for a year, many of them came back with girlfriends.
Talk of the newest moves in the skate industry slowly changed into the discussion of job security, relationships and future dreams. At this point women started to become a part of this talk.
Jumping ahead a couple years
Women are now very much a part of all our lives. The same group that poked fun of skipping a skate session to see a woman is now poking jokes to those that aren’t in a relationship.
Not too much later we began to ask one another if we were ready to marry these women. Some claimed ?No?, while others began spreading word of their engagement to this person and that person. (Instance 1, Instance 2)
It’s amazing how life changes and how far we’ve come from those days of watching out for cooties.
It’s my turn now
To add to all change in the world I’ve thrown one more into the hat. Jodi and I are now engaged. I asked her Sunday morning to be my wife and she gladly said yes.
So what happened to that little boy that made fun of relationships and skated his days away? He found a real women and he realized what he was missing.
So if you haven’t quite picked up on this little story - I’m now engaged to Jodi Broersma. Do I know what I?m getting myself into? Not really ? but I?m excited to see what happens.
