I took my girls to school this morning, winding through the square circled drive that parents use to deliver their children to three different school buildings. There are high school students walking everywhere.
You see all kinds of lifestyles represented in the student body of a school; cowboys, jocks, nerds, skaters. Just this morning, I had the opportunity to run over a girl with a skunk strip in the front of her hair, a gangster hoodie and multi colored and unlaced Converse knock-offs, but I refrained.
One thing that seems to run rampant in schools, regardless of the 'clique' is sexual promiscuity, also referred to as 'casual sex'. It's aggressively talked about between students, even as early as fifth and sixth grade.
But why not? Casual sex seems to surface in every movie, on every TV show, all over the Internet, and even encouraged through the choices in clothing designs.
What's interesting to me is how people want to feel special, wanted, and desired without commitment, making the act of sex with just anybody less than the special and intimate - and even anointed - act between a husband and wife as God intended it to be.
The reason why I share this brief blog with you was this: as I pulled out of the squared circle drive and headed home, I thought of the 'specialness' that marital sex is intended and supposed to have.
Then a line from a movie seemed to come to mind, and I'll leave it with you to ponder with the subject of promiscuity.
In the Disney cartoon, "The Incredibles", the nemesis, Syndrome had captured the entire super family, their hands and feet held captive by some kind of electromagnetic field.
Syndrome is talking about his plan of domination, selling his super inventions to everyone who can pay his price. As he turns to walk out - and here's the line - he says, "And when everyone's special, then no one is."
Chew on that for a while.
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