Here comes the groom... in sandals?

Jun 12, 2008 - 10:08 AM PST

Hey again. Long time no see. Sorry I haven’t written one of these in forever (aka about a month or so) but ive been really really busy. So, on to my clog. Today was eh actually pretty fun. I mean well I was gonna go hang out with my friends and have fun, but instead I had to go to a wedding which surprisingly was pretty fun. Why? Well, for one thing, I went in just a polo and some ppl there had just jeans and a t-shirt because the bride and groom were wanted a super casual wedding, which I’m all for. I don’t even know why we have to dress up and go all fancy for something, even a wedding. I understand that it’s the bonding of two people for forever, which is important, but well nowadays forever only lasts a few years and they it costs a fortune. Figure this, groom would need a tux, the bride a wedding dress, all the guests’ incredibly fancy clothing that they’ll will probably only wear eh once or twice before they grow out of it or it becomes old and they need/want a new one. Great use of money huh. Wouldn’t it just be easier to go easy on the wedding? Being 13, I haven’t really been to a lot of weddings, but looking at the ones I’ve been to, I’d guess it would cost around 10,000 dollars depending on how fancy you get. That’s a lot of money. The wedding I went to today was held at a park where they rented a pavilion and set up a tent for where they exchanged vows. Everything was eco-friendly (considering that for a job they work for a natural association, it’d be pretty ironic if it wasn’t), pretty and fun. Now I’m a going-to-weddings-phoebe (yes that’s a word now), but that was the only wedding where I could say that I would be happy to go again. Also, at most that would have cost less than 1000 dollars. I dunno bout you, but I wouldn’t mind 9,000 dollars, especially if I was about to start my life. Unfortunately, society tells us that the more expensive it is, the better it is. If only we could live a day in the life of some poor underfed kid in a third world country, we wouldn’t take anything for granted after that and actually learn how to spend our money. Look at our country; we live IN money, period. I mean, you look at all the celebrities and all the things they do, hell I’m sure if you cut them that’s what they would bleed. But its not just them, we drive around in Hummers and other luxurious, wasteful cars and dress in clothes that cost as much as food for some poor person that would last them a week. Explain me that? Even when our country is approaching near 9 TRILLION dollars in debt and it continues to rise spending 100’s of millions of dollars each day on that stupid war against our stupidity and paranoia (otherwise known as the war in Iraq), thank you Bush, but it’s just so stupid. We are a wasteful country and yes we are taking steps, but baby steps and we need to realize how slow we’re moving and start jogging. Hopefully, we’ll change, but that’s going to take a while considering that we even do change. I’m just sick of it…
-Keenan gimmme some feedback plz