Recently I heard someone voice their disagreement with the phrase, “marriage is hard work.” I understood where they were coming from, but why does hard work or work have to be negative?
If you’re creative this may be easy to grasp from this view point. Think about your latest project or masterpiece. Let’s envision you are creating a painting.
First, you have to organize, get your supplies, and decide what angel you’ll start from to make your vision come to life. Then you turn your music on have a snack near by and you go to work. The strokes are beautiful and poetic. You get excited as your see the picture in your head manifest across the canvas.
The clock strikes and you must stop to go tend to something else. But the next day you come back and continue making that magic. Even when you mess up you blot the mark our with white paint, wait for it to dry and come back to begin again.
One day while painting you get frustrated. You’ve been flowing so well but honestly, you’re not feeling the direction this pairing has taken. Its not what you imagined. So you brainstorm and take a break so you can come back with fresh eyes.
In the end, it all comes together. You beam with pride at your creation. It was work. Hard work. Focused work. Work that took skill. Work that you trained for and had to think outside the box sometimes to complete.
But this work brought and brings you and others joy. This work makes your soul happy. This work you happily display to the world.
Marriage is work. Beautiful, life changing, worthy work.
-Cam
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