Marriage

            When someone says they are married to someone, what does that really mean? And I don't mean what everybody would typicall say when asked this question, what I really mean is: aside from all the sentiments one may have, what does it really mean?
            We could claim marriage is what binds one together with another person, but how many times have we witnessed marriages fall apart? How many families have become fragmented by two people who did not particularly understand the meaning of a life commitment?
            The main peculiarty with the idea of marriage can be traced back to the ever recurring silliness of human to human given power, a.k.a. what we just covered – Authority.
            This is where we have certain people designating themselves as these magical priests, when all they are is truly who they are. These people who consider themselves priests are constantly claiming to wed two people through some magical blessing which ties them together until Mr. Death will inevetibaly part them, however, it would be considerate to ask ourselves, exactly how many people have parted each other before death?

            Reality Check: priests don’t really do anything for bringing two people closer together.

            But this is where the government steps up to the plate, right? Unfortunately, no – this is where the government further botches the whole scenario. As if the priest’s hocus pocus was not enough, the people who make up this term 'government' claim to marry two people with an elaborate paper document.
            Then, when these two people wish to be ‘divorced,’ they are handed not one more, but mountains more of these paper documents and drudged through court rooms filled with people claiming to be attorneys; syphoning from us not only our pretend money, but also our time that could have been spent doing something much more constructive with our lives. In other words, other people drag us through a verbal exposition laden with ink splashed souveniers just so people may attempt to live a little better.

            But before we complete this full circuit of marriage, what exactly is this thing we just called divorce? It is the confirmed separation of two people, correct? It is two people parting each other, going separate ways, living the life they choose without that person they had previously ‘married.’
            Or, in other words, divorce is merely two people saying good-bye (rather, perhaps a bit forcefully, and on occasion mixed in with an encore of expletives mind you, but a good-bye nonetheless).

            ..."Ohhh... but it is much more complicated," you say. So much more complicated than just saying good-bye. That is, in fact, why we have that crazy legality based divorce process, isn’t it?

            Well, reality check #five: Divorce is a only an 'officialized' group-based situation of needlessly complex hoopla created by our fellow human beings that has now somehow become customary in our wonderfully progressive society.

            So, let us pose the question one more time: What does it really mean to be married to someone? And now let me tell you: in the best and most liberating sense of the word, absolutely nothing. The auditory ramblings of someone in a cloak and a few well formed splashes of ink on paper do not do anything for binding two human creatures together.
           The only thing binding one to someone else are the mutual thoughts that flow through our minds. We dedicate ourselves to who we choose, where we choose, and for how long we choose. Some people just happen put forth the effort to choose the same person over and over again in a mutually chosen location, regardless of all difficulties imposed upon the relationship.

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