Positive Lifeskills

This is my radical blog. Tread with caution here.I strongly feel that happiness is so simple, yet we humans have made it so elusive.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Willing to divorce your spouse? When will you divcorce your parents?

The increasing divorce rates saddens me.
Divorce is the direct result of treating the sanctity of marriage-borne relationship as different from birth relationships. We do not 'divorce' our parents or children. Why not? Because it is 'not done'. At least, till now.
Once divorcing parents or children also becomes the norm, life would be strange. Dad spanked me, so I divorced him. My son hangs out with people I do not approve of, so I divorced him. A frightening scenario!
No, it does not happen that way. We treat these relationships as 'inviolable' and divorce of them as 'unthinkable' - and hence they stay stuck. There is no getting out of them, so they are OK.
Life in a prison is unbearable only because there is the hope of the gates opening one day. If the doors are closed forever,prison is OK. Limitations bother us only in comparison to the possibilities of 'no limitations'. It bothers me that I can not bat as well as Mahendra Singh Dhoni ( a great Indian batsman). However, the fact that I can not run as fast as the jaguar does not bother me.
Provide some 'unbreakability' to the institution of marriage and it will pull through most of the bad times.
Of course,one does not want to promote slavery for life.
We do not recommend total abolition of the capital punishment. We just want to enforce the philosophy that 'capital punishment is only for the RAREST OF RARE cases'.
In the rarest of rare cases, parents are , even now, 'divorcing' their children and some children are 'divorcing' their parents.It will always happen. But let us make divorce of marriage related relations as difficult as is the 'divorce' of birth related relations.Those who find these difficulties as more bearable than the marriage are welcome to divorce.
The very concept that marriage related relations are as dear as birth related relations will go a long way.
As a matter of fact, marriage relations should be treated as many degrees more inviolable since, unlike birth relations, these are a result of our own choice.
The new system expects people to marry the person they love. The old system expected people to love the person they marry.Regardless.
In any case, what has love got to do with marriage? Marriage is a responsibility which must be discharged whether or not I find love in it.
Marriage, like all other social institutions, is meant to promote stability of the society, even if at the expense of the individual. Were it not for the needs of the society, one could well 'live' with one's partner without marriage. Many do today. Their parting of ways does not invite social censure.
As I said earlier, if you treat marriage as inviolable, you will find even the ugly aspects of marriage quite bearable.

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