1/4000s | f6.3 | 27mm | Tables and chairs of a cafe decked out at the bottom of the slope.
When I say I don't believe in marriage, I don't mean it in a playboy-wannabe way, as has often been misconstrued and helped blow it with this super special girl. I'm all for monogamous relationships, just not the long-term, till-death-do-us-part kind; the kind of which I find unnatural instinctively but just wasn't able to articulate the reasons until now:
Why Marriage is Evil #1: It over promises.
Marriage is like a good salesman; it comforts and cons using phrases like "enduring true love".
WME #2: It makes you complacent.
Why go to the gym, groom, and bother to smell nice when you already have your equally fat, unsightly and smelly partner-for-life on the couch with you watching
The Biggest Loser?
WME #3: It shortens your life-span.
Being fat kills.
WME #4: It increases insurance and annuity premium.
You think con artists that are insurance companies won't take shortened life span into account when pricing your life insurance? Actuarial fact: A joint-life annuity is more expensive.
WME #5: It makes actuaries rich.
Increased profits for evil insurance companies translate to more moolah for the actuaries, thus making them more likely to buy into the promises (read: trappings) of marriage. The vicious cycle continues.
Slippery slope arguments notwithstanding, marriage is unnatural and evil. Not everyone agrees. Thus, finding a girl who's smart (1/8 chance), well-read (1/5), loves movies (1/5), works out and is thus fit (1/10), and doesn't believe in marriage (1/500) is statistically a one-in-a-million encounter.
