Before You | Clare Henney

Sometimes, the HOPELESS (yes, I had to emphasize the word) romantic in me can’t help but come out. This idea popped in my head after reading an online article about a girl who did something similar. I thought it was a good idea and I’ve been toying with it for weeks. I finally decided that I would actually start working on this as soon as I have the time to do so over the Christmas holiday. What exactly am I talking about? It’s a book (sort of) about me and my life before meeting the man that I will spend the rest of my life with, hence the title “Before You.”

I read about a girl who wrote a diary about her journey before meeting Mr. Right and I thought I’d do something like that. The difference with mine is that it won’t exactly be a diary that documents my day to day experiences but it would be more an autobiography of my life before meeting this ever-elusive Mr. Right.  I’ll separate it into sections about my childhood, friends, family, interests and so on and so forth.

Why did I think of doing this? Let’s face it and let me be honest: I am turning 35 on my next birthday (2012). When I meet the right guy and we get married, there may be a lot of things that we don’t know about each other yet because we didn’t get to spend years as a boyfriend-girlfriend type of couple. This will be my way of sharing things about me that we don’t get to talk about as much as we would like to. I’d like to give this thing to him as a gift when we get married one day (whenever that is). Yes, it sounds a little sappy, a little corny and all that but something in my gut is just pushing me to do this. I’m not even going to computerize it — I’ll do it by hand and even add some photos along the way like a scrapbook.  I hope that my future husband will appreciate it. I know some people who will make fun of this little project (believe me I have specific people in mind), people who believe that I’ll never get married but I do believe it will happen one day.  I believe that God will make it happen for me one day and I would like to use the time I have now to prepare for that person He has chosen for me.  That way I’d be ready when God thinks the time is right.

To the girls out there: what do you think?