Her Ring

People often ask me,
"are you married?"
and like always, I reply with a "nope".

And they look at my finger, look at me, look at my finger and I say, "I know. It's complicated, but it's no promise ring... It's just complicated".

I wrote this a few years ago, and I thought I'd put this up again because the question came up at work today. I know it's a bit different than my usual blogs, but I thought I'd go back to my roots of writing today. Anyways, enjoy!

Her ring is not a symbol of how she lives, nor is it how she isn't living it. It does not have the meaning of Love embedded in it, nor does it not symbolize it. It is merely a positive burden. A weight that she carries not on her back but on her finger. It is not the heaviest weight, but it is hard to hold because she holds you also; she carries your needs, your wants, secrets and your deepest desires. And she does this because she knows you do the same for her. So, when "problem" troubles us, I simply look at the ring and remember... I hold her needs, her wants, her secrets and her deepest desires, and she does the same for me, and "problem" is not even close to bigger than the two of us. So, in the end, her ring is not a symbol of how she lives, nor how she isn't. It is a reminder that living does not mean living one life... but two.

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