Our Life Outside the Box

As we progress through our twenties each year seems to bring more weddings. This year’s total so far has been four with one more on the books in early November. Over the last few years several of my good friends from college have been wed but, amazingly enough, everyone that I was close with in high school seems to have skirted the issue. That is, until this past weekend when Amanda and I attended the marriage of two of my closest friends from home, David Phillips and Kerry Robinson Phillips.

David had asked me to be his best man, a first for yours truly. Being a best man is one of those things that I have secretly hoped that I might be able to do one day. As an only child, I have always placed a very high premium on my friends. I view many of my friends as family and cherish deeply the relationships I have with them. Lurking in the back of my head throughout life has always been this thought: am I a good friend in return to the people that I care so much about? I’ve believed that being a best man would be a resounding yes to that question, even if it only spoke for one other person.

That’s why I viewed being David’s best man as one of the great honors of my life thus far. David is my oldest friend and I’ve known him longer than anyone other than my immediate family. Being able to stand with him at his wedding is something that I have a hard time finding words to describe because it meant so much. The experience was also utterly terrifying. (more…)

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