My co-worker just shared some rather distressing news about a mutual friend K. She is an alumna at EAST and had recently gotten married. Quite a number of us from EAST had attended her wedding and were really happy for her. Weddings are joyous occasions to mark the beginnings of a new chapter of one's life after all. Somehow, after having attended so many weddings in my short 44 years, I am beginning to wonder why it is so that weddings are often the height of happiness of one's life as a new chapter begins, and then life kinda goes downhill from there in most cases, before it plateaus and then hopefully picks up in gradient towards another hill of happiness when a healthy baby is born or a house is bought or some other achievement in life unlocks.
K's life seems to have gone downhill since her wedding. Her husband's business failed. She is now experiencing a difficult pregnancy. Both husband and wife needs the Christian community to rally and support them but they are withdrawing from everyone, except a few whom they deem safe. Praying for this dear couple that their faith in God will be purified and grow stronger through these trials of life they are going through. Pray that they will hold firm to their wedding vows, for poorer or richer, and in fact, they are going through the for poorer phase right now. I think it is usually easier to stay together when life is richer, though not always as some do stray when cash is plenty. But the poorer state is also a cause for many to depart. Marriage is a very strange animal. One should not have too much or too little in wealth to have a happy one, I reckon. Then again, what do I know, I am unmarried. :)
