Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Maybe...

I just read my earlier post - was I being too cynical and/or judgemental - maybe I should just mind my business and not put the world under a microscope? Maybe just as I think I know what I'm doing - others do too...Maybe I should just knock on wood and be thankful I found my own happily ever after...Maybe I should just go to bed content...instead of staying up late thinking dreary thoughts...Well...maybe I just will...(at least until the next wave of "what is with this world we live in" hits anyway!!!)

Does a happily ever after even exist?

A while ago a friend and I were speaking about the state of relationships, more specifically marriages in today's world. There is a "finality" (or whatever the noun form of final is) about marriage that many people don't seem to realise before (sometimes even after) they get into it.
She was telling me about how some people thought they were better off getting un-married rather than stay with the "mistakes" they'd married...we spoke of extra-marital affairs and people leaving each other at the drop of a hat...that got me thinking - whatever happened to good old "happily ever after"? Was it only meant to be the last line of little girls' fairy tales not be applied to real life any more? Why do more and more people think they can't (or is it they don't want to?) "make it work" ? And all the people who DO stay together - is it because they're scared to not?