Vee’s Inspiration October 4, 2024
My wife says I share too much, but I wouldn't be me if I didn't…
It’s hard to imagine that 7 days ago my wife and I celebrated 22 years of marriage. The cool thing is that's not where our journey begain. We met 34 years ago, September 27, 1990, at the Kroger on Ponce De Leon. She was the front-end lead and I was a clerk in the experimental nutrition section. At that time, my wife was the “party girl” and I was the “woke vegetarian club kid from New York”
When I say party girl I mean she would, on occasion, come to work straight from the club. Those who know her now know she can't hang past midnight anymore. And me, the guy anyone, but mostly ladies, could come to for nutritional, meditational, or fitness advice. My wife used to call me the “H-O-E” The cool thing is we became fast friends. She would hear all my stories regarding my female friends, my frustrations with religions, my various social service fraternity adventures my passions, and my naive aspirations of becoming a million before 30. I would hear her stories about growing up in some of the toughest parts of Atlanta, her crazy friends, and the things she wanted to accomplish in life. Who would have thought we were unintentionally laying the foundation for our current situation? Life is tough and Marriage is an exponentially tougher derivative of that, but it’s that difficulty that makes it so precious. We have had our challenges and difficulties, to the point where we were calling it quits, but when you have something that has a foundation that is based on friendship and you have someone who was special before you met them and continues to be special despite you, you find a way back to each other. I thank God for our initial friendship, I thank God for our ups and downs, but most of all I thank God for providing me we someone who has supported me, checked me, fought for me, protected me, and continues to ride with me. Thank you My Love for 22 years of Marriage and 34 years of Friendship, I’m excited to see what the next 34 years have in store for us.