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HOW DO WE KNOW WHEN something is menacing? What cues us that something is not innocent? Instinct always trumps reason.
Why abandon the routine we each master? Why give up the opportunity for many diverse relationships in exchange for one? There’s plenty of good with coupling up, I get it, but is it better? When single, I tend to focus on how much the company of someone would improve my life, increase my happiness. But does it?
The idea that we are better off with one person for the rest of our lives is not an innate truth of existence. It’s a belief we want to be true. Forfeiting solitude, independence, is a much greater sacrifice than most of us realize. Sharing a habitat, a life, is for sure harder than being alone. In fact, coupled living seems virtually impossible, doesn’t it? To find another person to spend all your life with? To age with and change with? To see every day, to respond to their moods and needs?
Most people want to get married. Is there anything else that people do in such huge numbers, with such a terrible success rate?
We can never really know someone else’s thoughts. And it’s thoughts that count. Thought is reality. Actions can be faked.
