Honorable intentions

When we are younger we might not reflect on what a marriage or partnership should mean. We might have been attracted to someone and felt they fit the bill but not wondered of we would be friends without the romantic link. 

My generation saw it as something you did because society expected it. You were a certain age and it was time to get serious about life and commit to it. 

With age we look back more carefully at what steps we took and why we thought they were important. Even if we don't regret them there is a blunt reality which seeps in and dissects it all with the benefit of lived experience. 

I tell my children that whatever call you make in life that you do it with honorable intentions and, if all fails in the end, they cannot take that away from you.