"Recipes for a Perfect Marriage" by Morag Prunty.
This weekend I did something so brazen, so bold, so earth shattering that my husband could hardly believe I actually did it. I deactivated my facebook account. For three whole days. I did it just to prove to myself that I was not addicted to this wildly popular social networking site.
I quickly learned that I don't spend much time doing anything else while online. Beyond my email and my google reader, maybe the weather... that's pretty much all I look at. Life got pretty boring.
Until I started reading a book I'd picked up from the clearance table at Barnes and Noble a few months ago called "Recipes for a Perfect Marriage" by Morag Prunty. I'm not done with the book, nor do I do book reviews either way, so I'm not going to tell you about it but the title says it all. Recipes and perfect marriages. Or lack thereof.
And on page 158, we read: "The day you think you have the answers is the day life tells you that you know nothing at all. When you think you have suffered enough and the road ahead looks sunny and flat, you will turn the corner and find there is a mountain to climb. When you climb the mountain there are no guarantees that there will not be another, and another after that."
So true, is it not? I used to think I knew everything and that life was sunny and flat with maybe a few little speed bumps along the way, nothing major. Then I came to that first mountain. How many more do I have to climb?
My husband is a deep thinker. I ... am not. Most of what runs through my mind at any given moment is what's for dinner and he can attest to you that I don't put much thought into that one most days either. We were recently challenged to sit and discuss some questions about life. I read through them and said, whoa, these are DEEP, I don't think like this, I can't do it. A week later, I'm still scratching my head, wondering what I could possibly say to any of these 29 questions.
Except maybe question 23. What is one way you would like to change. Seriously? Just one? I think right now, I would like to change how I think. I would like to be a deep thinker, and someone who is a more "expressive" thinker. I know my husband would appreciate it.
I need to think about this some more, me thinks, but in the meantime... how about you? What is one way you would like to change?
2 comments:
your picture today is lovely--I'm always amazed at the beauty you find through your lens. One thing I'd like to change. I'd like to look through a lens and see a picture.
Love those quotes, the book sounds amazing! I like to do that every once in a while too... I call it a Media Fast. It always makes me happier and less rushed. More grounded. You are so awesome, I love reading your blog!
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