LK-Abitur 2002-II, Topic 2: “Once you are married you are done for.” Would you subscribe to this view?
Von Peter Grandl:
Marricalypse Now
What has Coppola´s Vietnam-war masterpiece to do with marriage? At first glance nothing, but if you look closer you see Captain Willard and his team going down the river and getting more and more mentally disordered. Quite the same happens to married people: at first top, then more and more flop.
Let’s take a normal Saturday of a single: You get up at one p.m. and your head is aching because of last night’s party which lasted until half-past-six in the morning. Then you have a short breakfast with Kellogg’s and headache tablets. In the afternoon you meet with your three best friends at your favourite pub and watch Bayern Munich. After that you go home, have dinner and then you go to a disco and again celebrate till dawn.
Not so if you are married! Then you get up at half-past-six in the morning because the dog, which your wife wanted to have so badly, is barking and wants to be taken for a walk. Back home again you’re totally wet and in a foul mood because of the lousy weather outside. And then the breakfast: vegetarian, because your wife has recently decided to try vegetarian food. Then, without meat in your stomach, you have to go on a long walk and enjoy the beautiful nature, that you have seen a thousands times before, together with your gabbing wife.
At home you see only a five minute summary of the best Bayern Munich match in history and you´re jealous of your friends who watched the whole game at the pub on SKY Sport HD and are now celebrating the victory in a club. Of course you are at home and watch another kitschy and sentimental Rosamunde Pilcher with your wife, who falls asleep after ten minutes but immediately wakes up when you secretly try to switch to another program.
When the movie finally is over you go to bed, but you can´t sleep because the very thought that Bayern Munich will be in the Champions-League final next Saturday and will have the historical chance to win the triple and again you won’t be able to see the match, keeps you awake.
So I agree with what someone once said: „All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.“
Verena
perfect 😉