I was born in the wrong decade, or maybe even the wrong century. I am sure of this. Just as sure as I am that God doesn't make mistakes. How can both be true? How am I living in the age of social media when I feel so much more drawn toward the age of sock hops? Very often in this life we are called to live in the tension between what should be and what is. The tension between the eternal and the temporal, the holy and the worldly. This tension allows us and encourages us to approach the world how it is and do what we can to make it a little more like how it should be.
In a world where courting has devolved into "talking" or "hanging out" or "hooking up," those of us who are old fashioned can try to help pull things back from that ledge. I'd rather be single and steadfast in my values than get caught up in a world where guys are afraid to say the word date let alone actually ask a girl to go on one. Hopefully by expecting to be treated how I might have been in decades or centuries long since past, it will encourage others that there is a better way.
We don't have to accept friend requests instead of flowers. We don't have to let technology trump tradition. We don't have to settle for txt msgs over handwritten letters. We don't have to date frogs wishing they were princes. We don't have to hear "cloud" and feel silly because we thought of a fluffy white thing in the sky instead of nebulous storage. We don't have to accept the world how it is. Those who do are powerless to change it. I am here, and so are you, in the world today for such a time as this.
In a world where courting has devolved into "talking" or "hanging out" or "hooking up," those of us who are old fashioned can try to help pull things back from that ledge. I'd rather be single and steadfast in my values than get caught up in a world where guys are afraid to say the word date let alone actually ask a girl to go on one. Hopefully by expecting to be treated how I might have been in decades or centuries long since past, it will encourage others that there is a better way.
We don't have to accept friend requests instead of flowers. We don't have to let technology trump tradition. We don't have to settle for txt msgs over handwritten letters. We don't have to date frogs wishing they were princes. We don't have to hear "cloud" and feel silly because we thought of a fluffy white thing in the sky instead of nebulous storage. We don't have to accept the world how it is. Those who do are powerless to change it. I am here, and so are you, in the world today for such a time as this.
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