BACHELORHOOD versus MARRIAGE

Posted by Anonymous on 2006/10/17 11:34:05

To begin with, a BACHELOR is an unmarried or childless man. He is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game. By persistently remaining single, a BACHELOR converts himself into a permanent public temptation. But, alas, he is made a souvenir for some women who would find better ones at the last minute. Sadly, he has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union … he is an (sad to say) incomplete and lonely animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors; and would be considered very lucky to have someone at his bedside when he is about to take his last voyage into darkness. And if there is nobody there, he will lament, but to no avail.

Therefore, it is not good for a man to be alone. A BACHELOR is a typical lonely man! But MARRIAGE is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter! So which is which?

Soon as one takes oath, repeating the passage in the book of common prayers, a man finds himself so much older after he had finished repeating the last phrase that says ‘...till death us to part...’ Hence, love is the dawn of MARRIAGE, and MARRIAGE the sunset of love! From the beginning MARRIAGE is an open question; for those who are in it wish to get out, and those who are not yet in it die to get in.

MARRIAGE is like buying a lottery in which a man stakes his liberty; and a woman, her happiness. There is this proverb that says ‘a weeping bride is a laughing wife; a laughing bride ends up a weeping wife - a tired man is a relieved husband; a relieved husband ends up a dead man’.

But let not what I have said dampen your spirit. If you are tying the knot, then keep your eyes wide open before MARRIAGE and half shut them afterward; as a ‘deaf’ husband and a ‘blind’ wife make a happy couple. And remember that MARRIAGE is made in Heaven ... it is something you have to give your whole mind to. But most of all please take note that matrimony is like sailing the high seas for which no compass has yet been invented to make navigation any simpler.

So … Be very careful when you sail! All the best fellas!

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