A guy I know from work (and have spent a little time gaming with) got married last night.

On Halloween. In costume.

Yeah.

I’ve met the bride (she was also in that game). Nice girl. Funny. Excitable. Easily distracted.

She’s 20? 21? Something like that. He’s 30 or 31 or thereabouts.

Yeah. The hits just keep on coming, don’t they? Seems to me like… well, it seems like there should have been a little realistic self-awareness involved.

I know what sort of person I was at 20. I know what sort of person I was at 24, or 25 (an improvement). They were not the same guy. At all. Ditto 30. I got married at 20 and found out that not only was I a different person 3 years later (not an improvement), but that she was too (ditto that), and I was living with someone I didn’t know, and didn’t particularly want to know.

I wish them well. I truly do. I think their anniversary parties are going to kick ass.

I hope they get to have some.