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December 17, 2005
Growing Pains
I feel as if, in the last few months, I've been changing from Single Gal to Married Woman. It's tough, going through a big change like that and being dumped into the Married Woman life without exactly knowing how it goes. It doesn't help that the people I know (new and old) tend to treat me like Married Woman even though I don't know how to be Married Woman. It's strange to have a whole new identity instantly foisted on me and not knowing how to navigate in the Married People world.
Well, it's been a few months since I married, and I have a theory: it takes me about 6 months to adjust to new chapters in my life. It's like culture shock, I guess, and I just need to get through the Chaos stage to break through to the other side, where I am myself and everyone is who they are. I might have been Alice through the looking glass, where everything was just a little different (but that coffee table is just a little to the left and dang I keep barking my shin on it!)--different enough to catch me off guard, or make me dizzy (like those fun houses where everything is tilted? ever been in one of those? It looks normal but as soon as you try to move wham! you fall over), or make me knock my shins, or whatever.
I might have been Alice through the looking glass these last few months, but at least now I'm starting to learn why people in Married People World do unintelligible things like put pepper on their baby pigs or play croquet with hedgehogs and flamingos. It's because that's how we do things here in Married People World.
(See? I told you I was one of them. Resistance is futile, after all.)
Ponderings. | By The Newest Worker | 11:45 PM
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