Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Sign on

When you sign on to be a wife, you are signing on to be a widow, possibly. The implication is unsettling; the reaper will claim us all, yet to live is to pretend otherwise; to love is to imagine forever. Indeed the objective of life may be to remain ignorant of death for as long possible. The lesson of loss will come soon enough, and always as a shock.

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Just something I picked up from The Economist the other day. Never thought of marriage as such...... :-)
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  1. adil5 March 2011 at 23:40

    lol I remember reading that article. She (the widow who wrote the book under review) wrote a very depressing book about marriage after losing her husband... and then got married again very soon after! Subhaana-Allah God made people to function better in pairs... and then there's me warped in my own world in my head. May God save me and us all :)>

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  2. londonya6 March 2011 at 10:35

    the words of this post is bright... but the first sentence is real masterpiece :)

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