Monday, September 13, 2010

Proposal For Paper

I decided that my topic for my paper will be my engagement that has happened over the summer.   My main idea for the paper is that through everything that happens have start to feel and understand that you have a new responsibility to watch over the one you love.  You feel like if anything happens to them it happens to you too.  Also, for me its the start of being your own person and starting you life as a grown up with new responsibilities and following through something and not getting cold feet.  It starts out with buying you engagement and wedding rings.  You have that new responsibility of choosing out the rings and making sure you make payments on your rings and get them payed off.  Then you move on to having respect for you fiancés family.  I always new that the right thing to do was the be respectful the the family and ask for their blessing and if it was ok if you ask to marry their daughter.  It was nerve racking and you can always plan out what you want to say but in the end it never comes out the way you want but as long as they bless you to and are there to support you it doesn't matter they love you no matter what.  Finally come time to actually purpose.  Thinking of and idea was probably the hardest part for me.  I wanted it to me special of course and involve thing that she loves.  Luckily,  around the time I wanted to purpose, we were going on vacation to New Orleans.  This was perfect for me, due to the fact that Shelby loves beaches and ocean and we were planning one of your days to be on a beach at the Gulf of Mexico.  On the day that we planned we had to drive about two hours to where we wanted to go and by the time we ate and walked around town a little it was getting late so we decided just to walk on the beach for a little while.  This was when I grabbed the ring from my Sister-in-law, she was carrying it in her purse,  and i hide it as Shelby and I walked down the beach.  She started to get suspicious so we stopped and I told her how much I loved her and how we have gone through a lot together and I didn't want to be with anybody else. I knelt down and asked her to marry me, thank goodness she said yes.  The best part was as I stood up there were people on the beach and everybody started cheering and clapping for us and they had no clue who we are but they were happy for us.  I'm not sure how i'm going to write this paper but my ideas for it are that you learn responsibility, sense of love in a why, and strength and courage to do something.

1 comment:

  1. Jake,

    This whole concept sounds like it will be interesting to read. We are going to spend a great deal of time in class focusing on how to start and organize this paper. With any luck, when you are done in class tomorrow, you'll be ready to conquer this thing!

    If you wind up wanting some help, I have office hours from 12:30 to 2:30 tomorrow. Feel free to come by. We can really flesh out the idea! Just let me know!

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