I have searched the depths
of the entrails of reason, and I fail to understand why that most treasured institute
remains one of the most dastardly disdained and disrespected within the throes
of the cranial computations of society.
Do not forgive me for this initial
rants, my dear Sojourner, for I do not bid you to read on; nay…turn back now
and face the truth through the sights of men; as hidden and confused metaphors
of what the actual truths are. Continue with your life and dismiss this tirade
of hypocrisy that I shall utter. And yes my dear Sojourner, I am a hypocrite. I
see the truths even in the eyes of men, feel the truth in my blighted heart,
however I convey on with these confusions and computations of blatant lies in life
as though they are the very centre of life itself.
Now back to my convers of
the treasured institute and the societal rape of its very essence;
“Therefore a man shall leave
his father and his mother and
hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh”
These words serve as the very foundation of an institute where the man finds “…the flesh of his flesh, the bone of his bones”, his very own and personal wo-man, and this is the very basis of my attack on the society as a whole. We speak of the basic happiness, love and continuity marriage brings, and lie at the very point of its consummation that “…till death do you part”. What arrant distortion and melodramatic fib! I will only be foolish and brash to issue statistics, when these are already available in your head, my dear Sojourner. I shall give you ten seconds to contemplate and reel out names of 3 people that are either from broken homes or with dissolved marriages…now that wasn’t hard was it, my dear relentless Sojourner, was it? How then have we stripped the truth of the pains which it bears, and presented it to ourselves as though it is a duty of happiness and lasting pleasure we owe ourselves? If it were so, why then are there almost as many that are getting out of marriages as those getting into it?
In contemplation, this means that the sanctimony
and reverence of marriage is either overblown or highly undermined. I dare to say
that the latter is the case, and yes we do present it as the beauty of ages,
only to tramp it underfoot as though it is another toy to serve us for a
particular purpose and for a certain time. This, I utterly detest and protest
without contemplation. Should the nature of man not be to struggle to attain greater heights? Why should the nature of man in this regard be different? Yet,
in this reality, we as a society (you and I, my dear Sojourner, are also
included here) have decided to take the low roads, a most loathsome however easy
way of doing things.
We desire comforts and thrifts thus the path to this
institute have been marred by amoral endeavours and the institute itself is also entrenched
in disdainful acts. Is the way to a jungle not filled with shrubs? And in
search of a place of settlement do we not search for a clear path? This is a
truth we have dragged into the mire of our selfish and uncanny interests; that the path to marriage should be true, with strong intent of purpose and a clear conscience.
Furthermore, should a man who defaces his own house not live in ruins. How then
can we, after marrying decide not to make the effort to build on that lasting
and sanctimonious relationship with truth, patience, honesty and faithfulness?
On the other hand, why would society turn and
frown on those who have chosen to be, or have been willed to lonesomeness. Does
the importance of this institute extend to compulsion? I then say that, should
one decide not to hold on to those very true essences that make the path of
marriage; then let him turn aside to the path of lonesomeness.
In all these, my dear faithful Sojourner, will I
once more proclaim my hypocrisy, for while I rant and rave at the very wrongness
of the society; I shall cover my insincerities and inability to see these proclamations through with the excuse of ‘weakness of the human nature’, and quite
conveniently forget about the strength and relentless capability of man to
endure and succeed.
