I'm sure you've heard of FOMO - the "fear of missing out". Apparently Generation Y is much afflicted by it, but I've seen signs of it in older people too.
That fear that if you commit to one thing, you'll miss out on another...
That in turn translates into anxiety, that wherever you decide to go, another party in town might just turn out to be bigger or better.
Now marriage is a prime example of closing all other doors once you chose "the one". How can we possibly choose to marry one person if it means giving up on the idea of any other - for life?
There is that moment when we meet someone who makes us think that we couldn't possibly find anyone better, when waking up next to that person every day seems to be THE thing to wish for.
Yet the sentence "till death do us part" might still send a shiver down our spine. It sounds too much like "for the remainder of your natural life" - a life sentence really.
Maybe it's a matter of perspective.
What if instead of deciding once for the rest of our life, we decided every day?
What if, once we meet that "special someone", we decided to make that person our choice, one day at a time...