Why do people get married?
I heard the following quote from the snippet of the movie "Shall we Dance" when i was channel surfing. Susan Sarandon first asks "Why do people get married?" to which she first says not because we love each other but rather...
"We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'."
Is that true? but what does it actually mean? because we can';t simply pick anyone as a witness right? to stay with them, we have to love them. Anyway maybe the quote is not as deep as i first thought. It is true though, marrying means getting that witness right? :-) bonus!
1 comment:
People get married because no one is a complete person--we all need to find the other half of ourselves.
Think that's hokum? Think that these days, people don't need someone else to make them complete? That it's the 21st century FCOL? Think you're too strong and independent to ever think this way?
Wait until your spouse dies.
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