Ok, so I took some time out of my Hermione/Draco fanfiction reading (and no it's nothing smutty so get your minds out of the gutter) to read Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Now mind you I've been moving and working for six days a week for the past two weeks and am only on chapter twelve but holy hannah I LOVE THIS BOOK! The adventure that this kid gets to go on is just wicked. Anywho, I just wanted to let ya'll know that I'm having fun with it.
As for the new apartment, it's small but I love it! On Tuesday morning, after our first night sleeping there, I just got this feeling like "this is where we should be". So often with newlywed couples they feel like they have to buy this huge house and fill it with all the "cool" stuff that comes with being established as a family. As our most previous bishop pointed out to us, "we don't have to have the lives our parents have right now." Taylors' parents, when they first got married, had a little apartment that cost them $200 a month, a beat up car, and lived off of mac&cheese and ramen for a really long time. Heck, they only had meat maybe once a week, they didn't indulge in very many luxuries. Now they have a GORGEOUS 5 bedroom home, decorated beautifully and are able to provide for their family without many worries about "how are we going to do this?" For the first year of my marriage I deluded myself into thinking that I deserved the same lifestyle as Taylors parents. Again I admit that I deluded myself. I didn't work as hard as they did for what they have NOR do I have the same obligations or responsibilities as they do at the present time. They needed a house that size for their family. Right now, it's just Taylor and I, one bedroom and 500 square feet is plenty of room for us. Not saying that it's wrong to want these things or you're a bad person if you have them, I'm merely just saying that sometimes for ME it was easy to forget what my priorities were. Not only that, we're commanded to live within our means, to provided only what is NEEDED for our families to sustain a COMFORTABLE and healthy life. I used the word comfortable because it can easily get confused as luxurious or convenient. It's just that I know so many newlywed people buy ridiculously high priced vehicles (that would never be useful for a family) and homes that are larger than deemed necessary for just two people. And it sounds like I'm judging. Sorry. I'm mostly writing this to say "Don't get caught up in the hype of all of this. Live modestly now, so that you can enjoy the true 'luxuries' of life later." I want to do SO much with my family when I have one, but if I run myself into debt now, there's no way that that'll happen. I hope that makes sense.
If there's anyone that I offended with this, I'm truly sorry, it wasn't my intention. If you're able to provide providently for your family and afford it, then by all means, that's awesome. My concern is mostly for others that can't afford it yet still try to obtain that lifestyle (like I did).
So yeah...I think I've said enough. I hope to post a video of our new apartment by the end of next week. I love it so much!
Well, until next time.
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