GET MARRIED OR DIE CRYING

 GET MARRIED OR DIE CRYING.


Growing up, I thought that every married person was rich, happy and successful. They always looked as though everything in their life was copacetic.


I was made to believe that getting married automatically made people 'responsible' while the unmarried were irresponsible.


Now that I am 40+ and unmarried, I found that RESPONSIBILITY is a factor of the mind, not marital status.



I am more responsible than the father whose children took to terrorism, prostitution or armed robbery because he was never in their lives and never provided for his family.


I am more responsible than the idiot who slaps his wife around because she no longer respects him since she has become the sole provider in her home.


I am more responsible than those married people whose problems have become a community's problems because they cannot survive without begging from house to house.


I saw a woman with triplets begging for alms on the street and I felt insulted that my brain-dead society thinks her husband is more responsible than I who stopped to give her money to feed his children.


Poor people have no business discussing love, let alone talking about getting married and having children. They marry their kind, reproduce their kind and then complain that the government has made life more difficult when their unproductivity is responsible for the government's inability to provide a better living standard for the productive members of the society.


I am not married because I don't have the means to give my woman the kind of life she deserves for putting up with my excesses, and for agreeing to push, support, and pull me up whenever I find my strength unavailable. 


I couldn't have suffered as an irresponsible member of society and still suffer when I become responsible after marriage. (According to the stupid society that encourages and prepares young people for a life of marriage instead of a life of relevance)


©JBZ_2022

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