Has coupledom been a part of every Eartherns’ life?
For Asians around the world, relationship and marriage is considered to be one of the unquestioned path that one needs and would have to go through. Like a five-year old about to enter their childhood years, adults are expected to be, and belong to a couple-based relationship to be considered an “established” figure. More often than not, a single successful man or woman would be glanced with a sheer empathy out of their ringless fingers. Regardless of their content and comfortable personal state of mind, society stamped them as a somewhat rejected items, of an unsold product no matter how often it was on “sale”, “reduced”, and re-“reduced”.
Has fate been so singly layered, with no other dimensions BUT the one “true”, “correct” and “appropriate” way? Certain marriage lifestyle that would be of a close custom for Asians would be the familiar “rich man – pretty woman” entangleship.
He would be an average looking guy, with no less than a big house and luxurious cars, business or companies that had been established, or even better, handed over from previous generation. She would be gorgeous and fertile, with a personality that matches his mother and sisters, and a high school certificate or university degree that would never be of any use for her future marriage “career”.
One or two years down their marriage path, she would be pregnant, give birth, go out shopping and sipping the classy café au-lait whilst the maids at home take care of her five-days-old infant. And so that’s how they shall spend their closely knitted child-mother bond for their remaining lifetime.
Whilst numbers got added into the year calendar and she gets older and less attractive, her now even richer husband would rest his eyes on other women who are more favourable and eye-soothing, and body-pleasing. Power and materials would dominate their insecure life, he would leave her and she would be bitter all her life, and their children would continue their superficial lives.
Has life been dominated by material values throughout all of our existence?
Would the cavemen allow their cavedaugthers to marry only the cave-owners and compatible hunters?
What about our single, successful, smart and independent members of the society who are happily married to themselves?
Would it not be a lot more favourable to accomplish one single satisfying life than to resentfully endure a pre-conditioned lifestyle only to live up to the society’s standard?
JK
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