I Cannot Settle Down

A dear friend of mine woke me from a very pleasant dream squirrely early this morning to inform me she had become engaged.  I've thought much about her and that development today and this song, I feel, aptly illustrates my overall reaction.  Marriage...

Somewhere in this lonely world

There is a place where I belong

And I have seen its fields and streams

They have been revealed in my dreams

But you see I cannot settle down

There's just to much left un-found

I keep drifting like a cloud

On the wind, on the wind

Loved ones and friends lost along the way

I hope they have no ill words to say

'Cause I have cried so many tears

Leaving behind precious hearts throughout the years

'Cause you see I cannot settle down

There's just too much left un-found

I keep drifting like a cloud

On the wind, on the wind

I must keep traveling on

To find the place where I belong

And if I travel 'til the day I die

I'll make my home somewhere far beyond the sky

'Cause you see I cannot settle down

There's just too much left un-found

I keep drifting like a cloud

On the wind, on the wind

And you see I cannot settle down

There just too much left un-found

I keep drifting like a cloud

On the wind, on the wind

On the wind, on the wind

-Peter Bradley Adams

Maybe it's good for her... but for me... it sounds... impossible, atrocious, inconceivable, and if I am honest, attractive, reasonable, and desirable even. Here's the kicker: she's not the only of my friends involved in such foolishness.  She just happens to be the closest to me.  Another friend pointed out that as I (we) get older, there will be more and more stories of marrying and giving in marriage...