Confirmed Bachelor

I have decided to give up on the whole love and/or marriage thing, it just seems like it is all a big fraud. Today before one of my classes there was a group of people, including the professor, who was discussing their divorces, with a couple of students throwing in the stories of their parents divorces. The fact that the professor left his wife was perhaps the biggest shock of all. He just didn’t seem like the kind of guy who would do that, and in fact, he is more like me than I would like to admit. And then at work for the past couple of weeks, I always hear wives bad-mouthing their husbands, nothing too serious, but nothing I would want any wife of mine to say. So this evening, while sitting in front of a computer, punching in numbers, I decided that I would just turn my back on the whole thing. It just seemed there was too much heart break, bitter feelings, and just wasted lives. I’m sure there are couples who are happy together, who have been together since the dawn of time, I just don’t seem to run into them. Also, to top it off, those people I know who seem to have similar personality traits to me inevitably wind up divorced or in un-happy marriages. So, I figure its best just not to risk it all. I suppose dogs and cats will keep me company the rest of my life.

I’ll end with Mother Teresa: “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”