Must He Kneel to Propose ?

"Just yesterday I was watching a movie where the guy proposed without kneeling and I and my sister out rightly condemned the guy. That was arrogance at its height "!
                                                                                                          -Stacy

   Hello people!!! I've missed you guys a great deal. Without wasting much time, let's get to the business of the day. Just recently, it hit me that I've cocooned myself in a dangerous amount of the fictional idea of marriage ( pardon me but it's going to take some time for me to recover).The act of kneeling before now happened to be the height of a proposal for me.

    Apparently, I'm not the only one who has one or two things to add to the issue of the guy taking the step of kneeling while proposing. To quite a number,  as I have noticed in the course of the making of this post, the act of kneeling is a necessity while to others, it's really just a cliché. Needless to say that  It gave me some kind of consolation to realise that I was not the only one lost in  my utopic world. Well, I did my own bit of Q&A session and I discovered some very elating information which would be the centre of my discourse.

   At first, I noticed that the whole kneeling thing is largely dependent on perception ( from both sexes). Ladies as is expected add extra relevance to proposals. I'm almost certain that every woman wants the guy on his knees as it's for us the ultimate show of sincerity but before you guys quote me, like Katie Melua " that's a guess..." The guys on the other hand give different reasons why it's a no no. A look at Uchenna's opinion:

Uchenna : To me, I really wouldn't wanna kneel cause I believe its all too cliché for me, and I really have never been the type to go with the trend. Kneeling doesn't make the proposal better, it just makes it all textbook... 

    

  That's a good excuse Uche but an excuse all the same! We want you to kneel so just do it, cliché or not. Not to take sides but since we the ones being asked, we at least demand that we get our mind's worth. See Stacy's thoughts:

Stacy : For me, I like to compare the proposal to making a request from God.You know the way the level of asking for something from God changes as soon as you go on your knees from standing? It's like, this is dire , a form of humility and sincerity. That's exactly how I expect the man to translate his kneeling.

 

   Now that we get the guy and the lady perspective, what's the believer perspective?  I stumbled on the Christian perspective which I'd also love to share.

Pastor : The scripture says a man is to love his wife and give his life for hers like  Christ did for the church. When a man kneels, It's a sign of submitting and stepping down his own for another. It's that simple. We are actually the ones that give it a romantic connotation.

  Must He Kneel To Propose? If you had asked this question like some weeks ago, my answer would have been a resounding Yes! But now, I strongly believe that sincerity cannot be measured by a mere display of it. If you would sit for the proposal and be a good man, I wouldn't mind the sitting. Like Kika, "I don't think it matters how he proposes as long as it's romantic".

For me, take out the romantic and add honest . Oops, I remember, since it has a biblical backing, I wouldn't mind the knees on the ground biko!