Through the looking glass

I was talking to a lady at ballet class before the wedding and she shared an interesting thought about marriage. To paraphrase, she suggested that getting married is somewhat like going through the looking glass. Before you are married, you are looking ahead to the wedding, because it is a huge, life-changing event and something that you have been planning for a long time. In many ways, you do not look beyond the wedding. After you are married, you can look forward into what the rest of your life will be. You can look back through the looking glass and remember before you were married, but suddenly you do not see only the wedding ahead of you, you see your whole life.

Interesting, and very true. If nothing else has changed, my perspective certainly has. Oh, and my last name too. ;-)