To Write Or Not to Write

Hello again, all.

Tomorrow, my eldest brother is renewing his vows with his “soul mate.”  Although they married one another last year in a small ceremony, they decided to have a huge party with about 120 of their closest friends and family and have the wedding they felt was long overdue.

While I’m all about drinking and having a good time, I’m not too keen on being surrounded by people I have no interest in seeing or talking to for six hours.  I get through it with no problem, and usually come out of the whole experience avoiding any fake conversations, but I tend to make it the best experience I can.

With that, I’ve been asked to give a speech at my brother’s vow renewal.  This should be something that I plan beforehand so that I won’t make a fool of myself and just drunkenly rant about love’s ultimate meaning and how marriage culminates all of that and blah blah blah, right?

Well, it looks like I’m going to let the alcohol speak for itself. I’m not sure why, but I guess I feel like it’s more natural to speak when there isn’t a piece of paper in front of my face. What I want to tell them, though, will probably go something like this:

“I understand there are many in search of wicked adventures (and don’t get me wrong, I’m always down for some fun), but I think that we also all search for a form of contentment within ourselves that we can implement into our daily lives.  I guess this happiness has a way of finding itself through our growth as human beings living in this ever-changing world – a transformation that we all hope to share with someone else in our lives.

Anton Chekhov once said, ‘Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.’  I believe that our journey is illuminated by the gratification that life has when we meet that special person.  Besides for the fact that I believe you two have found this, I am hopeful that everyone in the room can experience that. It’s a special feeling.  Cheers, all.”

Wow, maybe this blog helped me write my speech.  Maybe I’ll just drunkenly rant.  I guess we'll just have to see where the scotch takes me.