Weddings 2

MK is getting married!

After what seems like years of talking about it, he's finally getting hitched. And about time.

This is my second journal about weddings, and certainly not my last. At this time, my peers are "at the right age" to marry and start a family. Which brings me to the issue: I'm running out of excuses when the spotlight gets directed at me during these events - and certainly, it hits me all the time.

Excuses I had made when asked about settling down:
At 25, I was too young.
At 26, I was too young.
At 27, I wanted to finish my MBA first.
At 28, I wanted to finish my MSCF first, having ditched MBA.
At 29, I was not rich enough to start a family.

This time, at 30, I am choosing among these:
I haven't found the one.
I have yet to finish school, a few exams this last term and I'll be done.
I am not rich enough.
I'm still in love with someone from my not too distant past.

Pathetic excuses, destined to get me any of these unwanted overtures:
Set-ups for dates.
Set-ups for more dates.
Set-ups for dates with moneyed ones.
Set-ups for dates with reformist ones.

Checkmate. I can't use these lines, definitely not. Maybe I'll use these:

I do not believe in marriage (then quote divorce rates or some unknown statistics about unhappily married couples): certain to dampen any newlyweds' day and have me certified as an insensitive jerk (but I am).

Or I could say I am in protest, for the unfair, unequal and inhuman treatment of same-sex couples and refuse to marry until the rights and privileges given to heterosexual unions are accorded the homosexual ones. Reminiscent of Debbie (QAF Season 4).

Or simply say I can't marry, not in this country anyway. Period.

Now, one columnist I read somewhere gave this advice: When bugged at a wedding on when you'll be next, bite your tongue. Then when there's a wake later and you happen to see this same person, ask: When will you be next? Let's see if they'll bug me about getting married in future weddings (that is, if I ever get invited again).

Note on the photograph: This is Daraga Church in Legaspi, Albay in the Bicol Region. Taken a year ago in May 2005 at one of my failed attempts to document the beautiful Mayon.