2. Are You A Risk Taker? There’s One Big One Left: Marriage
Earlier on this list, we pontificated on the fact that getting married pretty ruins the spontaneous lifestyle of both partners, both as solo individuals and as a couple. But, rest assured, there’s a distinction to be made here. Being spontaneous doesn’t necessarily have to mean that you are intrinsically prone to taking wild risks with your life. After all, there’s nothing inherently risky about deciding on the spur of the moment to drive down to the pier for an ice cream cone
.However, if you enjoy truly risky endeavors, such as extreme martial arts competition, surfing rough waves, or cliff diving, you’re going to need to check your lust for wild adventure at the chapel door. You certainly won’t be able to indulge in such risky and dangerous past times when you’re expected to watch the kids on a Saturday morning while your wife is at the supermarket.
But, as it turns out, if you really want to live a wild and devil may care sort of existence, getting married has more than its share of potential pitfalls and “winning ugly” scenarios. As stated above, marriage is a proposition in which you essentially stake your home, career, income, and accumulated property on the thin likelihood of making it last for anywhere from 40 to 60 years (sometimes longer). If that’s your idea of the ultimate “Take no prisoners” thrill ride, be our guest!
1. Marriage Lasts Forever (And We Mean It)
The moment you get married, you’re married forever. Even if you later divorce, there will always exist a specific time and place within the continuum of eternity in which you were married. Even after the both of you pass away, that moment will exist for the duration of the Universe. Once married, always married. Even if you manage to escape the snake pit with your limbs intact, you will always leave a piece of your soul behind. That’s the price.
Even if it lasts, you may still feel that you have wasted a significant portion of your youth, as well as all of the opportunities that were laid before you, on being married. Many married people, both male and female, express extreme regrets regarding the chances they missed, or could have taken, which were instead sacrificed at the altar of holy matrimony.
At the end of your life, what memories, what experiences, will you have to look back on? Will you regard the closing days of your existence with something like satisfaction, secure in the knowledge that you have lived a full, well ordered, and happy life? Or will you sigh with regret, despairing to the end over the life you have well and truly wasted?
Nothing is guaranteed to us in life, including the optimum duration of life itself. Since all things are in flux, it may already be later than you think. If you’re still on the search for your ultimate adventure, or your ultimate goal in life, it’s time to get on the stick. Marriage will only slow you down. Don’t stand still!
One Is The Loneliest Number, And We Like It That Way
In the end, the arguments against marriage stack up with overwhelming power against the arguments in favor of it. If you want to live your life free and unencumbered, marriage is nothing but an endless drudgery fest. Even though this article has been presented for the benefit of the male sex, from the unabashedly biased viewpoint of a very happy bachelor, it should not be taken as pertaining only to men.
The fact is, each and every one of these arguments and propositions could easily be reversed, or perhaps slanted in a different direction, to answer many female objections to the institution of marriage. Both parties to a possible marriage need to think long and hard over the arguments presented in this editorial. Rest assured, there are many more besides the ones that can be read here. Most of them are much, much worse!
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