Marriage

Many consider matrimony to be an institution, so much so that it is spoken of in revered tones. How many of us understand that marriage is more a state of mind than anything else? Many of us, have married people whom we have got to know better in our places of work or from other social and professional avenues. During such unions, the two people concerned just transcend one particular sub-set and join up in another. Nothing changes - not the way they love each other, nor the way they together perceive the world around them. All that changes is that they are now legally wedded. A string of words which has got official sanction. Does the fact that the two people are married cause one or both of them to feel more responsible for the other, or cause them to love each other more? More often than not, this is not the case. So wither the hallowed, sanctimonious dither about institutions and things?

Marriage is a good way of taking stock, where are we now? Are we where we wanted to be, when we started out? Such is practicality of marriage. Shorn it off all its glamour and what we have is a relationship between two people that exists to assist in mutual aggrandisement - physical and emotional.