Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines 

                                

I do not entreat your Grace to pardon me.

I know not by what power I am made bold,

Nor how it may concern my modesty,

In such a presence here to plead my thoughts;

But I beseech your Grace that I may know

The worst that may befall me in this case,

If I refuse to wed Demetrius.

 

Hermia      

A Midsummer Night’s Dream   Act I, Scene i, Line 62

                            

I had determined before I sat down here this morning to write about an experience I’ve recently had. Not surprisingly, since these Random Lines so often seem quite Un-Random, what I was going to write about was a wedding. And not just a wedding but, as in Hermia’s situation, a wedding that goes against what was being dictated as the right and proper thing to do. Let me explain.

As a way of celebrating twenty-five years of marriage, my wife and I decided to do a vow renewal ceremony this past spring. And since our marriage took place without any real wedding ceremony (we got married in town hall by a justice of the peace), we decided to make our vow renewal ceremony into the wedding that we never had. On that day twenty-five years ago, we had our five children from our respective first marriages, aged eleven to twenty, as our only five witnesses. Accordingly, we decided they should be the only attendees at our wedding ceremony; they and their now spouses, our three grandchildren, and of course our twenty-two-year-old son who was merely a twinkle in my eye twenty-five years ago. 

So, it was a group of sixteen having a wedding celebration in June of 2025 for two senior citizens who actually got married on February 17, 2000. It sort of goes against what one would consider the expected thing to do, doesn’t it? Except that it was the right thing to do. It was the most joyous experience of our married lives and one that Patrice and I are so very happy that we did not miss out on. 

The moral of the story? Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do, even when it may not seem like the expectedly right and proper thing to do. It's as simple as that.

Like Hermia, who is refusing to marry the guy her father wants her to marry. It's the same for all of us, whether we're talking about relationships, or careers, or whatever. Don’t ever settle for marrying a Demetrius! 

Do what's right for you!  

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