Always the Bridesmaid...

I went to a wedding this weekend. Just one of a million that I've been to in the last 7 years. Will it ever stop? I'm told that it doesn't. After I'm done going to my friends' weddings, I'll have to then go to my friends' kids' weddings, and so on and so forth. The truth is I don't forsee my own anywhere in the future, but if there is going to be one, it's going to have to be in the future. You know, those time restraints and such.
Anyway, during the incredibly long and arduous reception there was a brief and beautiful reprieve...the groom's grandparents got up to speak. Suddenly, I had this hilarious thought of them singing a duet together, and I turned to my reception neighbour and said, "Are they going to sing?".
"No.....that's impossible", he replied.
Before anyone had anytime to think further on the subject, grandma started humming to find her note. They sang a long and shaky duet, to which everyone gave a standing ovation, and for reasons unknown to me, someone yelled, "Sing it again!!".
They did.
I wish that I was able to put a sound bite of their brilliant voices mingling together in an off-key cacophony of song. Alas, I do not know how to do that, so the old people music will have to wait.
Anyway, I reckon that I'm on my way to becoming quite a bitter and skeptical person when it comes to weddings. I mean, I've been to so many. At the end of the day I am genuinely happy for my friends because it's awesome that they have found someone and it's so great to see them so elated. It really is...it's just that sometimes, as my friend mentioned to me, "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence". In my case that would be true. It doesn't help that all the movies in our society equate happiness with 'love', or what they depict of love. And it definetly doesn't help that the Christian community, though would never say so, thinks that if you aren't married by the time you are 23 that you are doomed to eternal lonliness. Ok, that's not totally true, but there are hints of that in places and from certain people.
It's so strange how much things change in just a matter of years. But I suppose that we are at a time in our lives where we will make some of the most important and life changing decisions. My question is, why are a bunch of twenty-somethings left to make those decisions? You'd think that really, those who had a bit more life experience under their belts, experienced true sorrow, knew happiness, and actually knew who they were would be able to come to a better decision than someone who's still trying to figure everything out. Maybe that's the point. Maybe all this comes with maturing and becoming an adult. Maybe this is just one more thing that God places in our lives to draw us to him and make us realize that we need him. Being completely incapable and knowing it. I haven't one friend who is now a parent who thought that they could do it when they found out that they were pregnant.
Now let's be serious...I have it pretty good. I live in an awesome place (although it is dubbed "the convent"), and I have two fabulous roomates (who I've dubbed "Patty and Selma"). I love my job, and I do, at the end of the day, love the town that I live in. I guess it comes down to the fact that sometimes events come along that make you look at things a little differently, like weddings.
A dear Thai friend of mine, maybe because she felt sorry for me and reckons that I need a Thai man, gave me a great book called "Thai For Lovers". It teaches you useful phrases like, "I'm single", "I don't have anyone in my heart", "I like your outfit", "I will pay for your plane ticket to Canada"...you know, just the common phrases that you'll need to know when you go to Thailand. It's a nice light read before you go to bed. So, I'm off. Laa-goon, yindii tii-daai ruu-jak.